internodium

Latin

Etymology

inter- +‎ nōdus (“knot”) +‎ -ium

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɪn.tɛrˈnoː.di.ũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [in.terˈnɔː.di.um]

Noun

internōdium n (genitive internōdiī or internōdī); second declension

1. the space between two knots or joints; an internode
2. segment [as in an scorpion's tail made of segments, etc]

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	internōdium	internōdia
genitive	internōdiī internōdī1	internōdiōrum
dative	internōdiō	internōdiīs
accusative	internōdium	internōdia
ablative	internōdiō	internōdiīs
vocative	internōdium	internōdia

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References

• “internodium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “internodium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers