pessulum

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive form of pessum (“pessary”).

Noun

pessulum n (genitive pessulī); second declension

1. a pessary

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	pessulum	pessula
genitive	pessulī	pessulōrum
dative	pessulō	pessulīs
accusative	pessulum	pessula
ablative	pessulō	pessulīs
vocative	pessulum	pessula

References

• “pessulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "pessulum", 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)
• “pessulum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.