English

Noun

gubernaculum ‎(plural gubernacula)

1. (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

1. the steering-oar, helm, rudder
2. management

Inflection

Second declension.

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
    
• 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.