jugulum

English

Etymology

Borrowing from New Latin jugulum (the collarbone; the hollow part of the neck above the collarbone; the throat), diminutive of jugum (a yoke, collar).

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈd͡ʒʌɡ.jəl.əm/, /ˈju.ɡjəl.əm/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

jugulum (plural jugula)

  1. The neck or throat.
    • 2004, George Saintsbury, History Of English Criticism, page 498:
      The jugulum at which to aim is the use of the word "criticism" at all.
  2. (zootomy, of a bird) The lower throat or the part of the neck just above the breast.
  3. (entomology) The jugum of an insect's wing.

Derived terms

References

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

jugulum n (genitive jugulī); second declension

  1. post-classical spelling of iugulum

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative jugulum jugula
genitive jugulī jugulōrum
dative jugulō jugulīs
accusative jugulum jugula
ablative jugulō jugulīs
vocative jugulum jugula

Descendants

  • English: jugulum

References

  • jugulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • jugulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.