scalpellum

English

Etymology

Latin scalpellum

Noun

scalpellum (plural scalpella)

  1. (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

  1. scalpel, lancet
  2. grafting knife

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative scalpellum scalpella
Genitive scalpellī scalpellōrum
Dative scalpellō scalpellīs
Accusative scalpellum scalpella
Ablative scalpellō scalpellīs
Vocative scalpellum scalpella

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’s 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
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