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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin vēsīcula. Doublet of vesicle.
Pronunciation
Noun
vesicula (plural vesiculae)
- (biology, medicine, archaic) Synonym of vesicle (small blister).
- Hypernym: blister
- Coordinate term: bulla
References
Latin
Etymology
Diminutive of vēsīca.
Pronunciation
Noun
vēsīcula f (genitive vēsīculae); first declension
- Little bladder.
- Blister (which is like a little bladder as a small sac of fluid).
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “vesicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vesicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "vesicula", 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)
- vesicula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.