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Etymology
[edit]Learned borrowing from Latin speculum.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]speculum (plural specula or speculums)
- (medicine) A medical instrument used during an examination to dilate an orifice.
- A mirror, especially one used in a telescope.
- (ornithology) A bright, lustrous patch of colour found on the wings of ducks and some other birds, usually situated on the distal portions of the secondary quills, and much more brilliant in the adult male than in the female.
- Synonyms: mirror, (archaic) beauty spot
- A lookout place.
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]medical instrument
patch of colour found on the wings of ducks and some other birds
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Anagrams
[edit]Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- speclum (late, proscribed)
Etymology
[edit]From speciō + -ulum (instrument noun suffix). Compare with spectrum.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈspe.ku.lum/, [ˈs̠pɛkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈspe.ku.lum/, [ˈspɛːkulum]
Noun
[edit]speculum n (genitive speculī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | speculum | specula |
Genitive | speculī | speculōrum |
Dative | speculō | speculīs |
Accusative | speculum | specula |
Ablative | speculō | speculīs |
Vocative | speculum | specula |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Late Latin: speclum (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
[edit]- “speculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “speculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- speculum 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)
- speculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “speculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “speculum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
Romanian
[edit]Noun
[edit]speculum n (plural speculumuri)
- Alternative form of specul
Declension
[edit]Declension of speculum
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) speculum | speculumul | (niște) speculumuri | speculumurile |
genitive/dative | (unui) speculum | speculumului | (unor) speculumuri | speculumurilor |
vocative | speculumule | speculumurilor |
Categories:
- English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *speḱ-
- English terms borrowed from Latin
- English learned borrowings from Latin
- English terms derived from Latin
- English 3-syllable words
- English terms with IPA pronunciation
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- en:Medicine
- en:Ornithology
- Latin terms suffixed with -ulum
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
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- Latin nouns
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin neuter nouns in the second declension
- Latin neuter nouns
- Romanian lemmas
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