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Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From iugum (“a yoke, collar”) + -ulum (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
iugulum n (genitive iugulī); second declension
- (anatomy) the collarbone
- (transferred sense) the hollow part of the neck above the collarbone
- (transferred sense) the throat
- (figurative) a murder, slaughter
- Synonyms: nex, lētum, homicīdium, excidium, occīsiō, occīdiō
- (figurative) the main point of one's argument
c. 35 CE – 100 CE,
Quintilian,
Institutio Oratoria 8.6.51:
- , pedem conferre et iugulum petere et sanguinem mittere, inde sunt, nec offendunt tamen.
Inflection
Second-declension noun (neuter).
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References
- “jugulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “iugulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- iugulum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- ^ Wagner, Max Leopold (2009) Giulio Paulis, editor, DES Dizionario etimologico sardo, a cura di Giulio Paulis, ILISSO, →ISBN, § θúkru