abaculus
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin abaculus, diminutive of abacus.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]abaculus (plural abaculi)
- (archaic) A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements; abaciscus.
Translations
[edit]a small tile
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From abacus (“a square board, tablet, panel”) + -ulus (diminutive suffix), from Ancient Greek ἄβαξ (ábax, “board”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /aˈba.ku.lus/, [äˈbäkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈba.ku.lus/, [äˈbäːkulus]
Noun
[edit]abaculus m (genitive abaculī); second declension
- diminutive of abacus (“square tablet, panel”): abaculus
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 36.67:
- Tingit ars, veluti cum calculi fiunt, quos quidam abaculos appellant, aliquos etiam pluribus modis versicolores.
- The craft dyes, like they are made of tiles, those which are called abaculi, some of which are made varicolored in many ways.
- Tingit ars, veluti cum calculi fiunt, quos quidam abaculos appellant, aliquos etiam pluribus modis versicolores.
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | abaculus | abaculī |
genitive | abaculī | abaculōrum |
dative | abaculō | abaculīs |
accusative | abaculum | abaculōs |
ablative | abaculō | abaculīs |
vocative | abacule | abaculī |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- “abaculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- abaculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “abaculus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “abaculus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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