pessulus
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin pessulus (“bolt (of a door)”).
Noun
pessulus (plural pessuli)
- (anatomy) A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pessulus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Ancient Greek πάσσαλος (pássalos), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (whence pangō). See also repāgulum.
Noun
pessulus m (genitive pessulī); second declension
- a bolt (of a door)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pessulus | pessulī |
| genitive | pessulī | pessulōrum |
| dative | pessulō | pessulīs |
| accusative | pessulum | pessulōs |
| ablative | pessulō | pessulīs |
| vocative | pessule | pessulī |
Descendants
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pestulus, *pestellus, *pesclum
References
- “pessulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pessulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pessulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “pessulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “pessulus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin