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English
Etymology
Latin umbrāculum
Noun
umbraculum (plural umbracula)
- (botany) Any umbrella-shaped appendage, such as the cap borne on the seta of Marchantia.
Latin
Etymology
From umbra + -culum.
Noun
umbrāculum n (genitive umbrāculī); second declension
- shade, shelter
- parasol, umbrella
- bower, arbour (shady retreat)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
References
- “umbraculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “umbraculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- umbraculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to exert oneself in the schools: desudare in scholae umbra or umbraculis
- “umbraculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- umbraculum in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- “umbraculum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin