manubrium

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English

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Etymology

From Latin manubrium (“handle”).

Pronunciation

Noun

manubrium (plural manubria or manubriums)

  1. (anatomy) The broad, upper part of the sternum.
  2. (zoology) The tube extending from the central underside of a jellyfish and ending in a mouth.
  3. (botany) A cell that projects inward from the centre of the shields in the globule of Chara.
  4. (music) A knob or handle that controls the stops of an organ.

Derived terms

Translations

French

Noun

manubrium m (plural manubriums)

  1. manubrium

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From manus (“hand”).

Pronunciation

Noun

manubrium n (genitive manubriī or manubrī); second declension

  1. handle, haft
    • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Epidicus 525, (iambic senarius):
      is etiam sese sapere memorat: malleum / sapientiorem vidi excusso manubrio.
      • 1912 translation by Henry Thomas Riley
        He too declares that he is a wise man! that the hammer, forsooth, should be wiser than the handle.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative manubrium manubria
genitive manubriī
manubrī1 		manubriōrum
dative manubriō manubriīs
accusative manubrium manubria
ablative manubriō manubriīs
vocative manubrium manubria

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: manubrium
  • Italian: manubrio
  • Spanish: manubrio

References

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