spiraculum

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English

Etymology

From Latin spīrāculum.

Noun

spiraculum (plural spiracula)

  1. A spiracle.

Latin

Etymology

From spirō (“breathe, respire; live”) +‎ -culum.

Pronunciation

Noun

spīrāculum n (genitive spīrāculī); second declension

  1. air hole, vent, spiracle; breath

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative spīrāculum spīrācula
genitive spīrāculī spīrāculōrum
dative spīrāculō spīrāculīs
accusative spīrāculum spīrācula
ablative spīrāculō spīrāculīs
vocative spīrāculum spīrācula

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Descendants

References

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