clavicula

Unadapted borrowing from New Latin clāvicula (“the collarbone”), diminutive of clāvis (“a key”).

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kləˈvɪk.jəl.ə/, /klæˈvɪk.jəl.ə/
• Rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə

clavicula (plural claviculae or (archaic) claviculæ)

1. (anatomy) Alternative form of clavicle.

• clavicular
• claviculate

• “clavicula”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

From clāvis (“a key”) +‎ -cula (diminutive nominal suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /klaːˈu̯i.ku.la/, [kɫ̪äːˈu̯ɪkʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /klaˈvi.ku.la/, [kläˈviːkulä]

clāvicula f (genitive clāviculae); first declension

1. a little key
2. (botany) the tendril of a vine
3. a bar or bolt of a door
4. a pivot
5. (New Latin, anatomy) the clavicle, collar bone

First-declension noun.

• clāviculārius

• clāvicārius
• clāviger

• “clavicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “clavicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• clavicula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.