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gubernaculum
gubernaculum
English
Noun
gubernaculum (plural gubernacula)
- (anatomy) Either of a pair of folds of peritoneum that attach to the caudal end of the gonads (testes in males and ovaries in females).
Latin
Etymology
From gubernō (“I steer”) and -culum.
Noun
gubernāculum n (genitive gubernāculī); second declension
- the steering-oar, helm, rudder
- management
Inflection
Second declension.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | gubernāculum | gubernācula |
genitive | gubernāculī | gubernāculōrum |
dative | gubernāculō | gubernāculīs |
accusative | gubernāculum | gubernācula |
ablative | gubernāculō | gubernāculīs |
vocative | gubernāculum | gubernācula |
Descendants
- French: gouvernail
References
- gubernaculum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- gubernaculum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- GUBERNACULUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “gubernaculum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to hold the reins of government: ad gubernacula (metaph. only in plur.) rei publicae sedere
- to hold the reins of government: gubernacula rei publicae tractare
- to steer: gubernaculum tractare
- to hold the reins of government: ad gubernacula (metaph. only in plur.) rei publicae sedere
- gubernaculum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- gubernaculum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Morwood, James. A Latin Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.