acetabulum
See also: acétabulum
English
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin acētābulum (“vinegar saucer, 1/48 congius”), from acētum (“vinegar”) + -bulum (“-bule: a vessel for”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌæs.ɪˈtæb.jʊl.əm/
Audio (UK) (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˌæs.əˈtæb.jəl.əm/
Noun
acetabulum (plural acetabulums or acetabula)
- (anatomy) The bony cup of the pelvis which receives the head of the femur.
- (zootomy) The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.
- (zootomy) A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.
- (zootomy) The large posterior sucker of the leeches.
- (zootomy) One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.
- A vinegar saucer, especially (historical) in ancient Roman contexts.
- (historical) A Roman unit of liquid measure reckoned as the volume of 2½ Roman ounces of wine and equivalent to about 66 mL although differing slightly over time.
Synonyms
- (bony cup of the pelvis): cotyloid cavity
- (cup-shaped parts of various animals): cotyle
Coordinate terms
- (unit of measure): lingula (⅙ acetabulum), cyathus (⅔ acetabulum), quartarius (2 acetabula), hemina (4 acetabula), sextarius (8 acetabula), congius (48 acetabula) urna (192 acetabula), amphora (384 acetabula), culeus (7680 acetabula)
Derived terms
- acetabular
- acetabulate
Translations
bony cup of the pelvis
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cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted
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sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish
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large posterior sucker of the leeches
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one of the lobes of the placenta
vinegar cup
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socket of the hipbone
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small Roman unit of liquid volume
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Latin
Alternative forms
- acetabulus
Etymology
From acētum (“vinegar”) + -bulum (“a vessel for”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /a.keːˈtaː.bu.lum/, [äkeːˈt̪äːbʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /a.t͡ʃeˈta.bu.lum/, [ät͡ʃeˈt̪äːbulum]
Noun
acētābulum n (genitive acētābulī); second declension
- acetabulum, a saucer for vinegar
- saucer, any similarly sized and shaped dish
- (historical) acetabulum, a Roman unit of liquid measure equivalent to about 66 mL
- (anatomy) acetabulum, the hipbone socket
- (zootomy) acetabulum, the suckers or cavities in the arms of polypi
- (botany) acetabulum, the cup of a flower
Inflection
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | acētābulum | acētābula |
| Genitive | acētābulī | acētābulōrum |
| Dative | acētābulō | acētābulīs |
| Accusative | acētābulum | acētābula |
| Ablative | acētābulō | acētābulīs |
| Vocative | acētābulum | acētābula |
Synonyms
- (anatomy and zootomy): cotyla
Coordinate terms
- (unit of measure): lingula (⅙ acetabulum), cyathus (⅔ acetabulum), quartarius (2 acetabula), hemina (4 acetabula), sextarius (8 acetabula), congius (48 acetabula) urna (192 acetabula), amphora (384 acetabula), culeus (7680 acetabula)
Derived terms
- acetabulosus
Descendants
Descendants of acetabulum in other languages
- → Catalan: acetàbul
- → English: acetabulum
- → Esperanto: acetabulo
- → French: acétabule, acétabulum
- Italian: acetabolo
- → Portuguese: acetábulo
- → Romanian: acetabul
- → Russian: ацетабул (acetabul)
- → Spanish: acetábulo
References
- “acetabulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- acetabulum 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)
- acetabulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “acetabulum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “acetabulum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin