English edit

Etymology edit

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 edit

Noun edit

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.

References edit

Latin edit

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

jugulum n (genitive jugulī); second declension

  1. Post-classical spelling of iugulum.

Inflection edit

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative jugulum jugula
Genitive jugulī jugulōrum
Dative jugulō jugulīs
Accusative jugulum jugula
Ablative jugulō jugulīs
Vocative jugulum jugula

Descendants edit

  • English: jugulum

References edit

  • 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.