vasculum
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English
Etymology
From Latin vasculum (“small vessel”).
Noun
vasculum (plural vasculums or vascula)
- A container used by botanists to store newly-collected samples.
- 1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter XIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 108:
- ‘Here,’ Jonas said, and picked up a brass vasculum. Unscrewing the lid he emptied it of herbs […] .
Latin
Etymology
Diminutive from vās (“vessel”) + -culum.
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯aːs.ku.lum/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvas.ku.lum/,
Noun
vāsculum n (genitive vāsculī); second declension
- A small vessel or container.
- A small beehive.
- (by extension) A seed-capsule or seed-vessel.
- (by extension) The calyx of a fruit.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | vāsculum | vāscula |
| genitive | vāsculī | vāsculōrum |
| dative | vāsculō | vāsculīs |
| accusative | vāsculum | vāscula |
| ablative | vāsculō | vāsculīs |
| vocative | vāsculum | vāscula |
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References
- “vasculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vasculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vasculum 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)
- vasculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.