articulus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin articulus. Doublet of article. === Noun === articulus (plural articuli) (zoology) A joint of the cirri of the Crinoidea. (zoology) A joint or segment of an arthropod appendage. ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Alternative forms === articlus (Late Latin, proscribed) === Etymology === Diminutive from artus (“joint; limbs”) +‎ -culus. In the grammatical sense, it is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (árthron). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [arˈtɪ.kʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [arˈtiː.ku.lus] === Noun === articulus m (genitive articulī); second declension a point connecting various parts of the body; joint, knot, knuckle. a limb, member, finger (grammar) a short clause; a single word; pronoun, pronominal adjective or article (figuratively) a member, part, division, point, article (figuratively) a point in time, moment; division of time, space (mathematics) a positive decimal integer consisting of a non-zero digit multiplied by a positive integral power of ten. 1544, w:Orontius Finaeus, Arithmetica Practica, liber I, cap. 1 [1] ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== (grammar) articulus dēfīnītus, articulus indēfīnītus; articulus praepositīvus, articulus postpositīvus articulāris articulō articulōsus ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “articulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “articulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "articulus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “articulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[2], London: Macmillan and Co.