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articulate
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Latin articul?tus (“distinct, articulated, jointed”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: ärt?'ky?l?t, IPA(key): /??(?)?t?k.j?.l?t/
- (US) enPR: ärt?'ky?l?t, IPA(key): /????t?k.j?.l?t/
- Rhymes: -?kj?l?t
- Rhymes: -?kj?le?t
Adjective
articulate (comparative more articulate, superlative most articulate)
- Clear; effective.
- Speaking in a clear and effective manner.
- Consisting of segments united by joints.
- Distinctly marked off.
- (obsolete) Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars.
- articulate sounds
- (obsolete, of sound) Related to human speech, as distinct from the vocalisation of animals.
- 1728, James Knapton and John Knapton, Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, page 146:
- Brutes cannot form articulate Sounds, cannot articulate the Sounds of the Voice, excepting some few Birds, as the Parrot, Pye, &c.
- 1728, James Knapton and John Knapton, Cyclopaedia, or an Universal Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, page 146:
Synonyms
- (good at speaking): eloquent, well-spoken
Translations
Noun
articulate (plural articulates)
- (zoology) An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.
- 1977, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History)
- They considered articulates to be pre-adapted for an eleutherozoic existence because they possess muscular arms which are potentially of value in crawling and swimming, as in comatulids.
- 1977, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History)
Etymology 2
From the adjective.
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: ärt?'ky?l?t, IPA(key): /??(?)?t?k.j?.le?t/
- (US) enPR: ärt?'ky?l?t, IPA(key): /????t?k.j?.le?t/
Verb
articulate (third-person singular simple present articulates, present participle articulating, simple past and past participle articulated)
- To make clear or effective.
- To speak clearly; to enunciate.
- I wish he’d articulate his words more clearly.
- To explain; to put into words; to make something specific.
- I like this painting, but I can’t articulate why.
- To bend or hinge something at intervals, or to allow or build something so that it can bend.
- an articulated bus
- (music) to attack a note, as by tonguing, slurring, bowing, etc.
- Articulate that passage heavily.
- (anatomy) to form a joint or connect by joints
- The lower jaw articulates with the skull at the temporomandibular joint.
- (obsolete) To treat or make terms.
Derived terms
- articulable
Related terms
- articulation
- pseudoarticulated
- pseudoarticulation
Translations
Further reading
- articulate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- articulate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
Latin
Verb
articul?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of articul?
References
- articulate in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- articulate in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
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capitulum
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin capitulum. Doublet of chapiter and chapter.
Noun
capitulum (plural capitula)
- (botany) A densely clustered inflorescence composed of a large number of individual florets arising from a platform-like base.
- (arachnology) The head-like mouthpart apparatus of a tick, including the palpi, mandibles, and hypostome.
- (anatomy) A small protuberance on a bone which articulates into another bone to form a ball-and-socket joint.
- (entomology, obsolete) The enlarged end of a proboscis.
Synonyms
- capitellum
Translations
Latin
Alternative forms
- (part or division of a writing): cap., c.
Etymology
From caput (“head”) +? -ulum (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ka?pi.tu.lum/, [kä?p?t???????]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ka?pi.tu.lum/, [k??pi?t?ulum]
Noun
capitulum n (genitive capitul?); second declension (Diminutive of caput)
- A head-like object or structure.
- (Late Latin) A chapter, either:
- A prominent section or formal division of a text.
- Various civic and ecclesiastical councils or bodies, as cathedral chapters.
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Synonyms
- (Late Latin: prominent part or division of a writing): caput
Derived terms
- capitellum
Descendants
References
- capitulum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- capitulum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- capitulum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- capitulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- capitulum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- capitulum in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
- capitulum in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- capitulum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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