vestibulum

== English == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from Latin vestibulum (“a forecourt, entrance court; an entrance”). Doublet of vestibule. === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /vɛˈstɪb.jəl.əm/ Rhymes: -ɪbjʊləm === Noun === vestibulum (plural vestibula) (zootomy) A cavity into which, in certain bryozoans, the esophagus and anus open. (anatomy) The vestibule of the ear. ==== Derived terms ==== vestibular vestibulo- === References === “vestibulum”, in Merriam-Webster.com Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present. == Latin == === Etymology === Uncertain. Possibilities include: From vestiō (“to dress, clothe, vest”) +‎ -bulum (“place, location”, nominal suffix). From unattested *vestis ("a feeding") or *vestus ("fed"), from the Proto-Indo-European root *wes- (“to graze”). For *verostabulum, from unattested *verus or *verum (“door”) (cf. aperiō) and stabulum. From the root of verrō (“to sweep”) (compare vestīgium). From unattested *vestis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wéstis, which is equivalent to Old English wist (“being,existence”). From vestis +‎ stabulum. From vē- +‎ stabulum. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wɛsˈtɪ.bʊ.ɫũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [vesˈtiː.bu.lum] === Noun === vestibulum n (genitive vestibulī); second declension (literally) enclosed space between the entrance of a house and the street, forecourt, entrance court Coordinate term: ātrium (transferred sense) entrance (to anything) Synonyms: iānua, ingressus, līmen, initium, porta, ingressiō, foris Antonym: abitus (figurative) beginning Synonyms: initium, prīmōrdium, prīncipium, līmen, orīgō, exordium Antonym: fīnis ==== Inflection ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== === References === “vestibulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “vestibulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "vestibulum", 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) “vestibulum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “vestibulum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “vestibulum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin