jugulum

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English

Etymology

Borrowing from New Latin jugulum (“the collarbone; the hollow part of the neck above the collarbone; the throat”), diminutive of jugum (“a yoke, collar”).

Pronunciation

Noun

jugulum (plural jugula)

  1. The neck or throat.
    • 2004, George Saintsbury, History Of English Criticism, page 498:
      The jugulum at which to aim is the use of the word "criticism" at all.
  2. (zootomy, of a bird) The lower throat or the part of the neck just above the breast.
  3. (entomology) The jugum of an insect's wing.

References

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

jugulum n (genitive jugulī); second declension

  1. Post-classical spelling of iugulum.

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative jugulum jugula
genitive jugulī jugulōrum
dative jugulō jugulīs
accusative jugulum jugula
ablative jugulō jugulīs
vocative jugulum jugula

Descendants

  • → English: jugulum

References

  • “jugulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • jugulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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