vestibulum
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Latin vestibulum (“a forecourt, entrance court; an entrance”). Doublet of vestibule.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (General American) IPA(key): /vɛˈstɪb.jəl.əm/
- Rhymes: -ɪbjʊləm
Noun
[edit]vestibulum (plural vestibula)
- (zootomy) A cavity into which, in certain bryozoans, the esophagus and anus open.
- (anatomy) The vestibule of the ear.
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “vestibulum”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Possibilities include:
- From vestiō (“to dress, clothe, vest”) -bulum (“place, location”, nominal suffix).
- From unattested *vestis ("a feeding") or *vestus ("fed"), from the Proto-Indo-European root *wes- (“to graze”).[1]
- For *verostabulum, from unattested *verus or *verum ("door") (cf. aperiō) and stabulum.[2]
- From verrō (“I sweep”)
- From unattested *vestis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéstis, which is equivalent to Old English wist (“being,existence”)
- From vestis stabulum
- From vē- stabulum
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /u̯esˈti.bu.lum/, [u̯ɛs̠ˈt̪ɪbʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /vesˈti.bu.lum/, [vesˈt̪iːbulum]
Noun
[edit]vestibulum n (genitive vestibulī); second declension
- (literally) enclosed space between the entrance of a house and the street, forecourt, entrance court
- Coordinate term: ātrium
- (transferred sense) entrance (to anything)
- (figurative) beginning
- Synonyms: initium, prīmōrdium, prīncipium, līmen, orīgō, exordium
- Antonym: fīnis
- 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita I.45:
- in vestibulo templi Dianae
- In the vestibule of Diana's temple
- in vestibulo templi Dianae
Inflection
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vestibulum | vestibula |
Genitive | vestibulī | vestibulōrum |
Dative | vestibulō | vestibulīs |
Accusative | vestibulum | vestibula |
Ablative | vestibulō | vestibulīs |
Vocative | vestibulum | vestibula |
Descendants
[edit]Descendants of vestibulum in other languages
References
[edit]- “vestibulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vestibulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vestibulum 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)
- vestibulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “vestibulum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “vestibulum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “vestibulum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 671
- ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “vestibulum”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 774
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