pessulus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin pessulus (“bolt (of a door)”). === Noun === pessulus (plural pessuli) (anatomy) A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds. == Latin == === Alternative forms === pessula === Etymology === From Ancient Greek πάσσαλος (pássalos), from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (whence pangō). See also repāgulum. === Noun === pessulus m (genitive pessulī); second declension a bolt (of a door) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== *oppessulō oppessulātus ==== Descendants ==== ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *pestulus, *pestellus, *pesclum Italo-Romance: Italian: peschio Gallo-Romance: Catalan: pestell Ibero-Romance: Asturian: piesllu, priesllu Galician: pecho Portuguese: pestilo Spanish: pestillo ⇒ Old Galician-Portuguese: fechar Galician: fechar Portuguese: fechar === References === “pessulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “pessulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “pessulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “pessulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “pessulus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin