Latin

Noun

vocābulum n ‎(genitive vocābulī); second declension

1. designation, name, expression

Inflection

Second declension.

Derived terms

• vocābulārium
• prōvocābulum

Descendants

• English: vocable
• French: vocable
• Galician: vocábulo
• German: Vokabel
• Italian: vocabolo
• Portuguese: vocábulo
• Spanish: vocablo

References

• vocabulum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vocabulum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• VOCABULUM in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “vocabulum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • we have no expression for that: huic rei deest apud nos vocabulum
    
  • to form, derive a word from... (used of the man who first creates the word): vocabulum, verbum, nomen ducere ab, ex...
    
  • the fundamental meaning of a word: vis et notio verbi, vocabuli
    
  • synonyms: vocabula idem fere declarantia
    
  • the word has a more extended signification: vocabulum latius patet
    
  • the word has a narrow meaning: vocabulum angustius valet
    
  • this word is neuter: hoc vocabulum generis neutri (not neutrius) est)
    
  • the proper term; a word used strictly: vocabulum proprium