different between acetabulum vs acetable

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin ac?t?bulum (“a little saucer for vinegar”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?æs.??tæb.j?l.?m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æs.??tæb.j?l.?m/

Noun

acetabulum (plural acetabula or acetabulums)

1. (anatomy) The bony cup of the pelvis which receives the head of the femur.
2. (zoology) The cavity in which the leg of an insect is inserted at its articulation with the body.
3. (zoology) A sucker of the sepia or cuttlefish and related animals.
4. (zoology) The large posterior sucker of the leeches.
5. (zoology) One of the lobes of the placenta in ruminating animals.
6. (historical, Ancient Rome) A vinegar cup.
7. (historical, Ancient Rome) The socket of the hipbone.
8. (historical, Ancient Rome) A measure of about one eighth of a pint.

Synonyms

• (bony cup of the pelvis): cotyloid cavity

Derived terms

• acetabular
• acetabulate

Translations

Latin

Etymology

From ac?tum (“vinegar”) +? -bulum (“a vessel for”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /a.ke??ta?.bu.lum/, [äke??t?ä?b??????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /a.t??e?ta.bu.lum/, [?t????t???bulum]

Noun

ac?t?bulum n (genitive ac?t?bul?); second declension

1. a shallow cup for vinegar; an acetabulum
2. any cup-shaped vessel
3. (anatomy) the socket of a hipbone
4. (zootomy) the suckers or cavities in the arms of polypi
5. (botany) the cup of a flower

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

References

• acetabulum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• acetabulum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• acetabulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• acetabulum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• acetabulum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Etymology

An Anglicisation of the Latin acetabulum.

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?s??t?b?l, IPA^(key): /?æ.s?.t?.b?l/

Noun

acetable (plural acetables)

1. An ancient Roman measure, equivalent to about one eighth of a pint.
2. An acetabulum.

Anagrams

• Albacete