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Latin
Etymology
From voc(ā) (“to name, call, summon”) + -bulum.
Pronunciation
Noun
vocābulum n (genitive vocābulī); second declension
- word
- designation, name, expression
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “vocabulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vocabulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vocabulum 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)
- vocabulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- we have no expression for that: huic rei deest apud nos vocabulum
- to form, derive a word from... (used of the man who first creates the word): vocabulum, verbum, nomen ducere ab, ex...
- the fundamental meaning of a word: vis et notio verbi, vocabuli
- synonyms: vocabula idem fere declarantia
- the word has a more extended signification: vocabulum latius patet
- the word has a narrow meaning: vocabulum angustius valet
- this word is neuter: hoc vocabulum generis neutri (not neutrius) est)
- the proper term; a word used strictly: vocabulum proprium