vulnus
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vulnus (plural vulnera)
- (medicine, formal) A wound.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
- I was once, I remember, called to a patient who had received a violent contusion in his tibia, by which the exterior cutis was lacerated, so that there was a profuse sanguinary discharge; and the interior membranes were so divellicated, that the os or bone very plainly appeared through the aperture of the vulnus or wound.
- 1999, Acta classica, volumes 42-43, page 89:
- But for the veterans in the Pannonian legions, their vulnera were no longer their tokens of honour, but an indication of the severity of service in the army.
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[edit]Italian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unadapted borrowing from Latin vulnus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vulnus m (plural vulnera)
- (law) infringement (of a right)
- (by extension) an offense capable of destabilizing a principle or norm
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[edit]Further reading
[edit]- vulnus in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
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Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Italic *welanos, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *welh₃- (“to hit”). Cognate with Latin vellō.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯ul.nus/, [ˈu̯ʊɫ̪nʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvul.nus/, [ˈvulnus]
Noun
[edit]vulnus n (genitive vulneris); third declension
- wound, injury
- Synonyms: damnum, dētrīmentum, incommoditās, calamitās, pauperiēs, maleficium, iniūria, noxa, fraus, plāga
- (figuratively) blow
- incision
- misfortune, calamity, disaster
- Synonyms: plāga, dētrīmentum, incommodum, clādēs, interitus, incommoditās, cāsus, perniciēs, exitium, īnfortūnium, miseria, calamitās, malum, cruciātus, nūbēs
- Antonyms: commodum, commoditās
- a loss in a battle
- Synonyms: clādēs, calamitās, incommodum, dētrīmentum
- Antonym: victōria
Declension
[edit]Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vulnus | vulnera |
Genitive | vulneris | vulnerum |
Dative | vulnerī | vulneribus |
Accusative | vulnus | vulnera |
Ablative | vulnere | vulneribus |
Vocative | vulnus | vulnera |
Derived terms
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[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- “vulnus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vulnus in Dizionario Latino, Olivetti
- vulnus 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)
- vulnus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
- to wound a person (also used metaphorically): vulnus infligere alicui
- to be (seriously, mortally) wounded: vulnus (grave, mortiferum) accipere, excipere
- after many had been wounded on both sides: multis et illatis et acceptis vulneribus (B. G. 1. 50)
- weakened by wounds: vulneribus confectus
- to open an old wound: refricare vulnus, cicatricem obductam
- to die of wounds: ex vulnere mori (Fam. 10. 33)
- the victory cost much blood and many wounds, was very dearly bought: victoria multo sanguine ac vulneribus stetit (Liv. 23. 30)
- (ambiguous) wounds (scars) on the breast: vulnera (cicatrices) adversa (opp. aversa)
- (ambiguous) wounds (scars) on the breast: vulnera adverso corpore accepta
- to wound a person (also used metaphorically): vulnus infligere alicui
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