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English
Etymology
From Latin scalpellum. Doublet of scalpel.
Noun
scalpellum (plural scalpella)
- (zoology) One of the four filamentous organs in the proboscis of hemipterous insects.
Latin
Etymology
From scalprum + -lum (diminutive suffix).
Noun
scalpellum n (genitive scalpellī); second declension
- scalpel, lancet
- grafting knife
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- “scalpellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “scalpellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "scalpellum", 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)
- scalpellum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “scalpellum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “scalpellum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin