different between medusa vs velarium

English

Etymology

Transferative use of Medusa.

Noun

medusa (plural medusas or medusae or medusæ)

1. A jellyfish; specifically (zoology), a non-polyp form of individual cnidarians, consisting of a gelatinous umbrella-shaped bell and trailing tentacles. [from 18th c.]
   • 2014, Theo Tait, ‘Water-Borne Zombies’, London Review of Books, vol. 36 no. 5:

     Typically, what we think of as the jellyfish, the medusa, reproduces sexually, spawning sperm and eggs which, once fertilised, turn into sea anemone-like polyps, which attach themselves to the jellyfish’s bottom or other surfaces.

Synonyms

• (non-polyp form of cnidarian): jelly, jellyfish

Derived terms

• medusafish
• medusal
• medusoid

See also

• jellyfish

References

• Medusa (biology) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Jellyfish on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• amused, sea mud

Catalan

Etymology

Latin Medusa

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /m??du.z?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /me?du.za/

Noun

medusa f (plural meduses)

1. jellyfish

Galician

Noun

medusa f (plural medusas)

1. jellyfish, medusa

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?du.za/

Noun

medusa f (plural meduse)

1. (animals) A jellyfish.

Derived terms

• meduseo

Anagrams

• desuma

Portuguese

Noun

medusa f (plural medusas)

1. (zoology) medusa (non-polyp form of a cnidarian)

Spanish

Etymology

From Medusa.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /me?dusa/, [me?ð?u.sa]

Noun

medusa f (plural medusas)

1. jellyfish

   Synonyms: aguamala, aguamar, aguaviva

Further reading

• “medusa” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

From Latin velarium. Doublet of veghar.

Noun

velarium (plural velaria or velariums)

1. (zoology) The marginal membrane of certain medusae belonging to the Discophora
2. (historical) An awning that stretched over the seating area of the Colosseum in Ancient Rome

Related terms

• velarial

Latin

Etymology

From v?lum (“sail, curtain, awning”) +? -?rium (“place for”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u?e??la?.ri.um/, [u?e????ä??i???]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ve?la.ri.um/, [v??l???ium]

Noun

v?l?rium n (genitive v?l?ri? or v?l?r?); second declension

1. awning
2. covering (over a theatre)

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek: ???????? (b?lárion), ?????? (b?lári)
  • Greek: ?????? (vilári)
  • Middle Armenian: ????? (ve?ar)
    • Armenian: ????? (ve?ar)
• English: velarium
• Italian: velario
• Piedmontese: velari

References

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