vexillum

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin vēxillum (“flag, banner”). === Noun === vexillum (plural vexilla) A flag, banner, or standard. A company of troops serving under one standard. The sign of the cross. (botany) The upper petal of a papilionaceous flower. (ornithology) The rhachis and web of a feather taken together. Synonym: vane ==== Related terms ==== vexilloid vexillar vexillary ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Alternative forms === vixillum (Vulgar or Late Latin, Pompeian inscriptions) === Etymology === From Proto-Italic *wekslolom, synchronically a diminutive form of vēlum. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [weːkˈsɪl.lũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [veɡˈzil.lum] Note: dictionaries disagree over the length of the root vowel, but there is good evidence that it was long. === Noun === vēxillum n (genitive vēxillī); second declension flag, banner 6th century, Venantius Fortunatus, Vexilla regis, first stanza: ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== === References === “vexillum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “vexillum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "vexillum", 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) “vexillum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎[1], London: Macmillan and Co. “vexillum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers “vexillum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin