retinaculum
English
Etymology
From Latin retināculum, from retinēre (“hold back”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌrɛtɪˈnækjʊləm/
Noun
retinaculum (plural retinacula)
- (anatomy) A connecting band.
- the retinacula of the ileocaecal and ileocolic valves
- (anatomy) One of the annular ligaments which hold the tendons close to the bones at the larger joints, as at the wrist and ankle.
- (zoology) One of the retractor muscles of the proboscis of certain worms.
- (zoology) A loop on the underside of the forewing of some moths.
- (botany) A small gland or process to which bodies are attached; as, the glandular retinacula to which the pollinia of orchids are attached, or the hooks which support the seeds in many acanthaceous plants.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “retinaculum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /re.tiˈnaː.ku.lum/, [rɛt̪ɪˈnäːkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /re.tiˈna.ku.lum/, [ret̪iˈnäːkulum]
Noun
retināculum n (genitive retināculī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | retināculum | retinācula |
| Genitive | retināculī | retināculōrum |
| Dative | retināculō | retināculīs |
| Accusative | retināculum | retinācula |
| Ablative | retināculō | retināculīs |
| Vocative | retināculum | retinācula |
Derived terms
- retina (possibly)
Descendants
- Old Sardinian: [Term?]
- Campidanese: ordinagus, odriàngulus
- Logudorese: redinagios, ordinagos, terinagos
- Nuorese: retinacros, rodinacos
- Sassarese: ridinaggi
- Borrowings:
- → Catalan: retinacle
- → English: retinaculum
- → French: rétinacle
- → Spanish: retináculo
References
- Rubattu, Antoninu (2006) “rèdini”, in Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes
Further reading
- “retinaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- retinaculum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- retinaculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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