tentaculum
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From New Latin tentāculum. See the doublet tentacle.
Noun
[edit]tentaculum (plural tentacula)
- (zoology) A tentacle.
- (anatomy) One of the stiff hairs situated around the mouth, or on the face, of many animals, and supposed to be tactile organs.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “tentaculum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From tentō (“I feel, touch, try”) + -culum, literally "thing for feeling".
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /tenˈtaː.ku.lum/, [t̪ɛn̪ˈt̪äːkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /tenˈta.ku.lum/, [t̪en̪ˈt̪äːkulum]
Noun
[edit]tentāculum n (genitive tentāculī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
singular | plural | |
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nominative | tentāculum | tentācula |
genitive | tentāculī | tentāculōrum |
dative | tentāculō | tentāculīs |
accusative | tentāculum | tentācula |
ablative | tentāculō | tentāculīs |
vocative | tentāculum | tentācula |
Descendants
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- English terms derived from New Latin
- English doublets
- English lemmas
- English nouns
- English countable nouns
- English nouns with irregular plurals
- en:Zoology
- en:Anatomy
- Latin terms suffixed with -culum
- Latin 4-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin neuter nouns in the second declension
- Latin neuter nouns
- New Latin
- la:Zoology