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Latin
Etymology
From vehō (“I bear, carry, convey; ride”) + -culum.
Pronunciation
Noun
vehiculum n (genitive vehiculī); second declension
- A means of transport; vehicle, conveyance, carriage; wagon, cart; ship.
- Synonyms: carpentum, currus, vectābulum, vectāculum
- An agricultural implement for cutting down grain; reaping-machine.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
Further reading
- “vehiculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vehiculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vehiculum 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)
- vehiculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1650/3.
- vehiculum in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 3383
- “vehiculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers