terebellum

terebellum m (plural terebellums)

1. alternative spelling of térébellum

• “terebellum”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• terebillum, terebrellum, teribellum, terribellum

From terebrum (“borer”, alternative form of terebra) +‎ -lum (diminutive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [tɛ.rɛˈbɛl.lũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [t̪e.reˈbɛl.lum]

terebellum n (genitive terebellī); second declension (Late Latin)

1. borer
2. auger
3. tendril
4. gimlet
5. tailspin

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• terebra

• Italian: trivello
• → Albanian: turjelë
• → French: térébellum, terebellum
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *terebella
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: trivella, ⇒ trivellare
  • >? Ibero-Romance: (or from a diminutive of "trabs" instead)
    • Old Galician-Portuguese:
      • Galician: tarabela
      • Portuguese: taramela, ⇒ taramelar
    • Spanish: tarabilla
  • → French: térébelle
  • → Translingual: Terebella, ⇒ Terebellidae

• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “terebellum”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC
• Jean Boudot (the Elder.), Dictionarium universale Latino-Gallicum ex omnibus Latinitatis autoribus summe diligentia collectum: cum variis multarum, quæ vulgo synonymæ videntur, Latinarum vocum differentiis ... Decima-octava editio, 1804, p. 1021. Online.