vasculum

English

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Wikipedia

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Italic *wāss

Latin vās

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Italic *-elom

Latin -ulum

Latin -culum

Latin vāsculumbor.

English vasculum

Borrowed from Latin vāsculum (“small vessel”).

Noun

vasculum (plural vasculums or vascula)

1. A container used by botanists to store newly-collected samples.
   • 1981, Gene Wolfe, chapter XIII, in The Claw of the Conciliator (The Book of the New Sun; 2), New York: Timescape, →ISBN, page 108:

     ‘Here,’ Jonas said, and picked up a brass vasculum. Unscrewing the lid he emptied it of herbs […] .

Latin

Etymology

From vās (“vessel”) +‎ -culum (neuter diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwaːs.kʊ.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈvas.ku.lum]

Noun

vāsculum n (genitive vāsculī); second declension

1. a small vessel or container
2. a small beehive
3. (by extension) a seed-capsule or seed-vessel
4. (by extension) the calyx of a fruit

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	vāsculum	vāscula
genitive	vāsculī	vāsculōrum
dative	vāsculō	vāsculīs
accusative	vāsculum	vāscula
ablative	vāsculō	vāsculīs
vocative	vāsculum	vāscula

Derived terms

• vāsculārius
• vāscellum
• vāsculāris

Related terms

• vās
• vāsārium
• vāsātus

Descendants

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *vasca (from vāscula)
  • >? Friulian: vascje (or from Italian)
  • Italian: vasca
• Borrowings:
  • → English: vasculum
  • → Italian: vascolo

References

• “vasculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vasculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vasculum", 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)
• “vasculum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.