vocabulum

From voc(ā) (“to name, call, summon”) +‎ -bulum.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /woˈkaː.bu.lum/, [wɔˈkaː.bʊ.ɫũː]

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vocābulum n (genitive vocābulī); second declension

1. designation, name, expression

Second declension.

• vocābulārium
• prōvocābulum

• vocabulum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vocabulum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vocabulum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• vocabulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • we have no expression for that: huic rei deest apud nos vocabulum
    
  • to form, derive a word from... (used of the man who first creates the word): vocabulum, verbum, nomen ducere ab, ex...
    
  • the fundamental meaning of a word: vis et notio verbi, vocabuli
    
  • synonyms: vocabula idem fere declarantia
    
  • the word has a more extended signification: vocabulum latius patet
    
  • the word has a narrow meaning: vocabulum angustius valet
    
  • this word is neuter: hoc vocabulum generis neutri (not neutrius) est)
    
  • the proper term; a word used strictly: vocabulum proprium