clavicula

Unadapted borrowing from New Latin clāvicula (“the collarbone”), diminutive of clāvis (“a key”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kləˈvɪk.jəl.ə/, /klæˈvɪk.jəl.ə/
• Rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə

clavicula (plural claviculae or (archaic) claviculæ)

1. (anatomy) Alternative form of clavicle.

• clavicular
• claviculate

• “clavicula”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

From clāvis (“a key”) +‎ -cula (diminutive nominal suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key):
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key):

clāvicula f (genitive clāviculae); first declension

1. a little key
2. (botany) the tendril of a vine

   Iam vērō vītēs sīc clāviculīs adminicula tamquam manibus adprehendunt atque ita sē ērigunt ut animantēs.

   The vines we see take hold on props with their tendrils, as if with hands, and raise themselves as if they were animated.

3. a bar or bolt of a door
4. a pivot
5. (New Latin, anatomy) the clavicle, collar bone

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First-declension noun.

• clāviculārius

• clāvicārius
• clāviger

• “clavicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “clavicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• clavicula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.