receptaculum
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin receptaculum.
Noun
[edit]receptaculum (plural receptacula)
- (anatomy) A receptacle.
- the receptaculum of the chyle
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From receptō (“I recover, harbor”) (stem receptā-) + -culum (suffix creating nouns describing the tool or agent for effecting an action), frequentative of recipiō (“I receive; I reserve”) (past participle receptus (“recovered”)), from re- (“back, again”) + capiō (“I hold”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /re.kepˈtaː.ku.lum/, [rɛkɛpˈt̪äːkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /re.t͡ʃepˈta.ku.lum/, [ret͡ʃepˈt̪äːkulum]
Noun
[edit]receptāculum n (genitive receptāculī); second declension
- A place to keep things in; reservoir, receptacle, repository, container.
- A place of refuge, lurking-place, shelter, retreat.
- Synonyms: perfugium, latebra, asȳlum, tēctum, dēverticulum
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | receptāculum | receptācula |
genitive | receptāculī | receptāculōrum |
dative | receptāculō | receptāculīs |
accusative | receptāculum | receptācula |
ablative | receptāculō | receptāculīs |
vocative | receptāculum | receptācula |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Catalan: receptacle
- → English: receptacle
- → French: réceptacle
- → Italian: ricettacolo
- → Portuguese: receptáculo
- → Spanish: receptáculo
References
[edit]- “receptaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “receptaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- receptaculum 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)
- receptaculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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