different between esophagus vs vestibulum

English

Noun

esophagus (plural esophagi)

1. (American spelling) Alternative spelling of oesophagus

Derived terms

• Barrett's esophagus

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