vocabulum

From voc(ā) (“to call; to summon”) +‎ -bulum.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wɔˈkaː.bʊ.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [voˈkaː.bu.lum]

vocābulum n (genitive vocābulī); second declension

1. word
2. designation, name, expression

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• vocābulārium
• prōvocābulum

• “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^[1], 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