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cavity

English

Etymology

From Middle English cavity, from Middle French cavité, from Late Latin cavitas, from Latin cavus (hollow).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?kæv?ti/
    • (US) IPA(key): [?k?æv??i]

Noun

cavity (plural cavities)

  1. A hole or hollow depression.
  2. A hollow area within the body (such as the sinuses).
  3. (dentistry) A small or large hole in a tooth caused by caries; often also a soft area adjacent to the hole also affected by caries.

Synonyms

  • See also Thesaurus:hole
  • (dentistry): caries

Derived terms

Related terms

  • cave
  • concave
  • excavate
  • excavation
  • excavator

Translations

Further reading

  • cavity in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • cavity in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
  • cavity at OneLook Dictionary Search

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vestibulum

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin vestibulum (a forecourt, entrance court; an entrance). Doublet of vestibule.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /v??st?b.j?l.?m/
  • Rhymes: -?bj?l?m

Noun

vestibulum (plural vestibula)

  1. (zootomy) A cavity into which, in certain bryozoans, the esophagus and anus open.
  2. (anatomy) The vestibule of the ear.

Derived terms

  • vestibular
  • vestibulo-

References

  • “vestibulum”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Latin

Etymology

From vesti? (to dress, clothe, vest) +? -bulum (place, location, nominal suffix), probably from the sense of "a place to dress."

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /u?es?ti.bu.lum/, [u??s??t??b??????]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ves?ti.bu.lum/, [v?s?t?i?bulum]

Noun

vestibulum n (genitive vestibul?); second declension

  1. (literally) enclosed space between the entrance of a house and the street, forecourt, entrance court
    Coordinate term: ?trium
    1. (transferred sense) entrance (to anything)
  2. (figuratively) entrance, opening, beginning

Inflection

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

References

  • vestibulum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • vestibulum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vestibulum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • vestibulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
  • vestibulum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • vestibulum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

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