acetabulum

See also: acétabulum

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin acētābulum (“vinegar saucer, 1/48 congius”), from acētum (“vinegar”) + -bulum (“-bule: a vessel for”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌæs.ɪˈtæb.jʊl.əm/

• Audio (Southern England)

  (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌæs.əˈtæb.jəl.əm/

Noun

acetabulum (plural acetabulums or acetabula)

1. (anatomy) The bony cup of the pelvis which receives the head of the femur.
2. (zootomy) The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.
3. (zootomy) A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.
4. (zootomy) The large posterior sucker of the leeches.
5. (zootomy) One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.
6. A vinegar saucer, especially (historical) in ancient Roman contexts.
7. (historical) A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of 2½ Roman ounces of wine and equivalent to about 66 mL although differing slightly over time.

Synonyms

• (bony cup of the pelvis): cotyloid cavity
• (cup-shaped parts of various animals): cotyle

Coordinate terms

• (unit of measure): lingula (⅙ acetabulum), cyathus (⅔ acetabulum), quartarius (2 acetabula), hemina (4 acetabula), sextarius (8 acetabula), congius (48 acetabula) urna (192 acetabula), amphora (384 acetabula), culeus (7680 acetabula)

Derived terms

• acetabular
• acetabulate

Translations

bony cup of the pelvis

• Catalan: acetàbul (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 髖臼／髋臼 (zh) (kuānjiù)

• Finnish: lonkkamalja (fi)
• French: acétabule (fr) m, acétabulum (fr) m
• German: Hüftgelenkspfanne f
• Latin: acētābulum n
• Lithuanian: gūžduobė f
• Malay: asetabulum
• Portuguese: acetábulo m
• Romanian: acetabul n
• Russian: вертлу́жная впа́дина (ru) f (vertlúžnaja vpádina)
• Spanish: acetábulo (es)

cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted

• Catalan: acetàbul (ca) m
• French: acétabule (fr) f
• Latin: acētābulum n

sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish

• Catalan: acetàbul (ca) m
• Finnish: imukuppi (fi)
• Latin: acētābulum n

large posterior sucker of the leeches

• Catalan: acetàbul (ca) m
• Finnish: imukuppi (fi)

one of the lobes of the placenta

vinegar cup

• Catalan: acetàbul (ca) m
• French: acétabule (fr) f
• Latin: acētābulum n
• Persian: قاروره (fa) (qârure)
• Spanish: acetábulo (es) m

socket of the hipbone

• French: acétabulum (fr) m
• Latin: acētābulum n

small Roman unit of liquid volume

• Latin: acētābulum n

Latin

Alternative forms

• acetabulus

Etymology

From acētum (“vinegar”) +‎ -bulum (“a vessel for”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.keːˈtaː.bu.lum/, [äkeːˈt̪äːbʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.t͡ʃeˈta.bu.lum/, [ät͡ʃeˈt̪äːbulum]

Noun

acētābulum n (genitive acētābulī); second declension

1. acetabulum, a saucer for vinegar
2. saucer, any similarly sized and shaped dish
3. (historical) acetabulum, a Roman unit of liquid measure equivalent to about 66 mL
4. (anatomy) acetabulum, the hipbone socket
5. (zootomy) acetabulum, the suckers or cavities in the arms of polypi
6. (botany) acetabulum, the cup of a flower

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	acētābulum	acētābula
Genitive	acētābulī	acētābulōrum
Dative	acētābulō	acētābulīs
Accusative	acētābulum	acētābula
Ablative	acētābulō	acētābulīs
Vocative	acētābulum	acētābula

Synonyms

• (anatomy and zootomy): cotyla

Coordinate terms

• (unit of measure): lingula (⅙ acetabulum), cyathus (⅔ acetabulum), quartarius (2 acetabula), hemina (4 acetabula), sextarius (8 acetabula), congius (48 acetabula) urna (192 acetabula), amphora (384 acetabula), culeus (7680 acetabula)

Derived terms

• acetabulosus

 

Descendants

Descendants of acetabulum in other languages

• → Catalan: acetàbul
• → English: acetabulum
• → Esperanto: acetabulo
• → French: acétabule, acétabulum
• Italian: acetabolo
• → Portuguese: acetábulo
• → Romanian: acetabul
• → Russian: ацетабул (acetabul)
• → Spanish: acetábulo

References

• “acetabulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• acetabulum 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)
• acetabulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “acetabulum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “acetabulum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin