baculum
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English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin baculum (“stick, staff, sceptre, cudgel”).
Pronunciation
Noun
baculum (plural baculums or bacula)
- A bone found in the penis of some mammals.
- Synonyms: os penis, penis bone, penile bone
- 2018 January 24, Elsa Panciroli, The Guardian:
- Bacula can be straight rods, s-shaped curves, or even bizarre, flared scoops.
- A small rod-like structure found in spores and pollen.
- 1993, M. R. Saxena, Palynology: A Treatise, page 34:
- The sexine usually consists of two main parts, a partially or wholly covering layer — the tectum (roof) and below that the rods or rod-like elements — the bacules (baculum, columella).
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Translations
bone found in the penis of some mammals
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Dutch
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin baculum.
Pronunciation
Noun
baculum n (plural bacula)
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *bakklom, from Proto-Indo-European *baktlom, from *bak- (“stick”). Cognate with Ancient Greek βάκτρον (báktron), βακτηρία (baktēría), English peg. See also beccus.
Pronunciation
Noun
baculum n (genitive baculī); second declension
- walking stick, cane, staff
- sceptre, rod, verge (staff of office)
- stick, cudgel
- (Medieval Latin) a stick used as a symbol of warranty or in transfers of property
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) a support, stay
- (Ecclesiastical Latin) crosier
- (zoology) a penis bone
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | baculum | bacula |
| Genitive | baculī | baculōrum |
| Dative | baculō | baculīs |
| Accusative | baculum | bacula |
| Ablative | baculō | baculīs |
| Vocative | baculum | bacula |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Catalan: bàcul
- English: baculum
- French: bâcle
- Galician: bagoo (archaic), báculo (borrowing)
- Irish: bachall
- Italian: abbacchio, bacchio, bacolo
- → Portuguese: báculo (learned)
- Sardinian: baculu
- → Spanish: báculo (learned)
- → Welsh: bagl (“crook, staff”)
References
- “baculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “baculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- baculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “baculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “baculum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “baculus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 76