stabilimentum
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editstabilimentum (plural stabilimenta)
- A particular web structure made by some spiders.
- 1912, John Henry Comstock, The Spider Book: A Manual for the Study of the Spiders and Their Near Relatives, the Scorpions, Pseudoscorpions, Whip-scorpions, Harvestmen, and Other Members of the Class Arachnida:
- The stabilimentum of Cyclosa differs greatly from that of a garden spider. It often consists largely of the remains of the insects that the spider has destroyed fastened together and in place with threads of silk.
Further reading
edit- Web decoration on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Latin
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /sta.bi.liːˈmen.tum/, [s̠t̪äbɪlʲiːˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /sta.bi.liˈmen.tum/, [st̪äbiliˈmɛn̪t̪um]
Noun
editstabilīmentum n (genitive stabilīmentī); second declension
Declension
editSecond-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | stabilīmentum | stabilīmenta |
Genitive | stabilīmentī | stabilīmentōrum |
Dative | stabilīmentō | stabilīmentīs |
Accusative | stabilīmentum | stabilīmenta |
Ablative | stabilīmentō | stabilīmentīs |
Vocative | stabilīmentum | stabilīmenta |
References
edit- “stabilimentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- stabilimentum 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)
- stabilimentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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