vinclum

Latin

Alternative forms

• vinculum

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯in.klum/, [ˈu̯ɪŋkɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvin.klum/, [ˈviŋklum]

Noun

vinclum n (genitive vinclī); second declension

1. Alternative form of vinculum
   • ("any instrument whereby anything is bound or tied up")
   • (figuratively) a bond, obligation, binding force, tie, especially of marriage
     • 29 BCE – 19 BCE, Virgil, Aeneid 4.58-59:

       [...] lēgiferae Cererī Phoebōque patrīque Lyaeō,
       Iūnōnī ante omnīs, cui vincla iugālia cūrae.

       [Dido and Anna offer sacrifices] to the lawgiver Ceres, and to Phoebus, and to father Lyaeus, and above all to Juno, to whom the bonds of marriage [are among her] concerns.
       (Lyaeus, Lyaios, Λυαῖος = Dionysus or Bacchus.)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	vinclum	vincla
genitive	vinclī	vinclōrum
dative	vinclō	vinclīs
accusative	vinclum	vincla
ablative	vinclō	vinclīs
vocative	vinclum	vincla

References

• “vinclum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers