tentaculum

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English

Etymology

From New Latin tentāculum. See the doublet tentacle.

Noun

tentaculum (plural tentacula)

  1. (zoology) A tentacle.
  2. (anatomy) One of the stiff hairs situated around the mouth, or on the face, of many animals, and supposed to be tactile organs.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tentaculum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Etymology

From tentō (“I feel, touch, try”) +‎ -culum, literally "thing for feeling".

Pronunciation

Noun

tentāculum n (genitive tentāculī); second declension

  1. (New Latin, zoology) a tentacle

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative tentāculum tentācula
genitive tentāculī tentāculōrum
dative tentāculō tentāculīs
accusative tentāculum tentācula
ablative tentāculō tentāculīs
vocative tentāculum tentācula

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