pessulus
English edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin pessulus (“bolt (of a door)”).
Noun edit
pessulus (plural pessuli)
- (anatomy) A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pessulus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Ancient Greek πάσσαλος (pássalos), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (whence pangō). See also repāgulum.
Noun edit
pessulus m (genitive pessulī); second declension
- a bolt (of a door)
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pessulus | pessulī |
Genitive | pessulī | pessulōrum |
Dative | pessulō | pessulīs |
Accusative | pessulum | pessulōs |
Ablative | pessulō | pessulīs |
Vocative | pessule | pessulī |
Descendants edit
- Vulgar Latin: *pestulus, *pestellus
References edit
- “pessulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pessulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pessulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “pessulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “pessulus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin