cartilago

See also: cartílago

Latin

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kert- (“to weave, twist together”), the same source as Latin crātis (“wickerwork”) and Ancient Greek κροτώνη (krotṓnē, “excrescence on a tree”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /kar.tiˈlaː.ɡoː/, [kärt̪ɪˈɫ̪äːɡoː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kar.tiˈla.ɡo/, [kärt̪iˈläːɡo]

Noun

cartilāgō f (genitive cartilāginis); third declension

1. (anatomy) Cartilage, gristle.
2. (botany) A substance harder than pulp but softer than woody fiber.

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cartilāgō	cartilāginēs
genitive	cartilāginis	cartilāginum
dative	cartilāginī	cartilāginibus
accusative	cartilāginem	cartilāginēs
ablative	cartilāgine	cartilāginibus
vocative	cartilāgō	cartilāginēs

Derived terms

• cartilāgineus (adjective)
• cartilāginōsus (adjective)

Descendants

→ French: cartilage

→ English: cartilage

→ Spanish: cartílago

References

• “cartilago”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cartilago 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)
• cartilago in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.