acetabulum

See also: acétabulum

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin acētābulum (“vinegar saucer, 1/48 congius”), from acētum (“vinegar”) + -bulum (“-bule: a vessel for”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌæs.ɪˈtæb.jʊl.əm/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌæs.əˈtæb.jəl.əm/

Noun

acetabulum (plural acetabulums or acetabula)

1. (anatomy) The bony cup of the hip bone which receives the head of the femur.

   Synonym: cotyloid cavity

   Holonyms: hip joint; hip bone < pelvis

   Comeronyms: (counterpart in the hip joint) femoral head; (counterparts in the hip bone) ilium, ischium, pubis

2. (zootomy) The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.

   Synonym: cotyle

3. (zootomy) A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.
4. (zootomy) The large posterior sucker of the leeches.
5. (zootomy) One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.
6. A vinegar saucer, especially (historical) in ancient Roman contexts.
7. (historical) A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of 2½ Roman ounces of wine and equivalent to about 66 mL although differing slightly over time.

   Coordinate terms: lingula (⅙ acetabulum), cyathus (⅔ acetabulum), quartarius (2 acetabula), hemina (4 acetabula), sextarius (8 acetabula), congius (48 acetabula), urna (192 acetabula), amphora (384 acetabula), culeus (7680 acetabula)

Derived terms

• acetabular
• acetabulate
• acetabulo- (and its derivatives)
• aceto- (and its derivatives)

Translations

bony cup of the pelvis

Catalan: acetàbul (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 髖臼 / 髋臼 (zh) (kuānjiù) Finnish: lonkkamalja (fi) French: acétabule (fr) m, acétabulum (fr) m German: Hüftgelenkspfanne f Indonesian: asetabulum (id) Latin: acētābulum n Lithuanian: gūžduobė f Malay: asetabulum Polish: panewka stawu biodrowego f Portuguese: acetábulo m Romanian: acetabul n Russian: вертлу́жная впа́дина (ru) f (vertlúžnaja vpádina) Spanish: acetábulo (es)

cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted

Catalan: acetàbul (ca) m French: acétabule (fr) f Latin: acētābulum n

sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish

Catalan: acetàbul (ca) m Finnish: imukuppi (fi) Latin: acētābulum n

large posterior sucker of the leeches

Catalan: acetàbul (ca) m Finnish: imukuppi (fi) Indonesian: asetabulum (id)

one of the lobes of the placenta

vinegar cup

Catalan: acetàbul (ca) m Czech: octenka f French: acétabule (fr) f Latin: acētābulum n Persian: قاروره (fa) (qârure) Spanish: acetábulo (es) m

socket of the hipbone

French: acétabulum (fr) m Indonesian: asetabulum (id) Latin: acētābulum n

small Roman unit of liquid volume

Latin: acētābulum n

Latin

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Alternative forms

• acetabulus

Etymology

From acētum (“vinegar”) +‎ -bulum (“a vessel for”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.keːˈtaː.bʊ.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.t͡ʃeˈtaː.bu.lum]

Noun

acētābulum n (genitive acētābulī); second declension

1. acetabulum, a saucer for vinegar
2. saucer, any similarly sized and shaped dish
3. (historical) acetabulum, a Roman unit of liquid measure equivalent to about 66 mL
4. (anatomy) acetabulum, the hipbone socket
5. (zootomy) acetabulum, the suckers or cavities in the arms of polypi
6. (botany) acetabulum, the cup of a flower

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	acētābulum	acētābula
genitive	acētābulī	acētābulōrum
dative	acētābulō	acētābulīs
accusative	acētābulum	acētābula
ablative	acētābulō	acētābulīs
vocative	acētābulum	acētābula

Synonyms

• (anatomy and zootomy): cotyla

Coordinate terms

• (unit of measure): lingula (⅙ acetabulum), cyathus (⅔ acetabulum), quartarius (2 acetabula), hemina (4 acetabula), sextarius (8 acetabula), congius (48 acetabula) urna (192 acetabula), amphora (384 acetabula), culeus (7680 acetabula)

Derived terms

• acetabulosus

Descendants

Descendants

• → Catalan: acetàbul
• → English: acetabulum
• → Esperanto: acetabulo
• → French: acétabule, acétabulum
• Italian: acetabolo
• → Portuguese: acetábulo
• → Romanian: acetabul
• → Russian: ацетабул (acetabul)
• → Spanish: acetábulo

References

• “acetabulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "acetabulum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “acetabulum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “acetabulum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “acetabulum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin