scalpellum

== English == === Etymology === From Latin scalpellum. Doublet of scalpel. === Noun === scalpellum (plural scalpella) (zoology) One of the four filamentous organs in the proboscis of hemipterous insects. == Latin == === Etymology === From scalprum + -lum (diminutive suffix). === Noun === scalpellum n (genitive scalpellī); second declension scalpel, lancet grafting knife ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== === References === “scalpellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “scalpellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "scalpellum", 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) “scalpellum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “scalpellum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “scalpellum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin