báculo

See also: baculo

Portuguese

báculo (sense 1)

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin baculum, from Proto-Indo-European *bak-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈba.ku.lu/

• Rhymes: -akulu
• Hyphenation: bá‧cu‧lo

Noun

báculo m (plural báculos)

2. crosier (staff of a bishop or abbot)
3. (zootomy) baculum (bone found in the penis of some mammals)
   • 2011 November, “Estudo morfológico dos órgãos genitais masculinos do guaxinim (Procyon cancrivorus) [Morphological study of raccon male genital organs]”, in Pesquisa Veterinária Brasileira, volume 31, number 11, Rio de Janeiro: CBPA, →DOI, page 1026, column 2:

     O pênis possuía o osso báculo, e ventralmente o músculo bulboesponjoso com coloração enegrecida devido à vascularização e fina membrana conjuntiva.

     The penis has the baculum bone, and ventrally the bulbospongiosus muscle [has] a darkened color due to vascularization and the thin conjunctive membrane.

4. (botany) cosier (young fern frond)

Further reading

• “báculo”, in iDicionário Aulete (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2025
• “báculo”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
• “báculo”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025
• “báculo”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025

Spanish

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin baculum, from Proto-Indo-European *bak-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbakulo/ [ˈba.ku.lo]
• Rhymes: -akulo
• Syllabification: bá‧cu‧lo

Noun

báculo m (plural báculos)

1. staff (long, straight stick, especially one used to assist in walking)

   Synonym: bastón

Further reading

• “báculo”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10