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Latin
Pronunciation
Noun
vinclum n (genitive vinclī); second declension
- Alternative form of vinculum
- ("any instrument whereby anything is bound or tied up")
- (figuratively) a bond, obligation, binding force, tie, especially of marriage
29 BCE – 19 BCE,
Virgil,
Aeneid 4.58-59:
- lēgiferae Cererī Phoebōque patrīque Lyaeō,
Iūnōnī ante omnīs, cui vincla iugālia cūrae.- to the lawgiver Ceres, and to Phoebus, and to father Lyaeus, and above all to Juno, to whom the bonds of marriage concerns.
(Lyaeus, Lyaios, Λυαῖος = Dionysus or Bacchus.)
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
References
- “vinclum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers