meaculum

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /meˈaː.ku.lum/, [meˈäːkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /meˈa.ku.lum/, [meˈäːkulum]

Noun

meāculum n (genitive meāculī); second declension

1. a course, passage
   • c. 125 CE – 180 CE, Apuleius, Metamorphoses 1.4:

     Ego denique vespera, dum polentae caseatae modico secus offulam grandiorem in convivas aemulus contruncare gestio, mollitie cibi glutinosi faucibus inhaerentis et meacula spiritus distinentis minimo minus interii

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	meāculum	meācula
genitive	meāculī	meāculōrum
dative	meāculō	meāculīs
accusative	meāculum	meācula
ablative	meāculō	meāculīs
vocative	meāculum	meācula

Related terms

• meābilis

References

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