different between speculum vs spiculum

English

Etymology

From Latin speculum (“mirror”), from specere (“to see; to look at”) + -ulum (“forming tools of performing a verb”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sp?kj?l?m/
• (UK) enPR: sp?k?y?-l?m, IPA^(key): /?sp?kj?l?m/

Noun

speculum (plural speculums or specula)

1. (medicine) A medical instrument used during an examination to dilate an orifice.
3. A mirror, especially one used in a telescope.
4. (ornithology) A bright, lustrous patch of colour found on the wings of ducks and some other birds, usually situated on the distal portions of the secondary quills, and much more brilliant in the adult male than in the female.
5. A lookout place.

Translations

Anagrams

• muscle up, muscle-up

Latin

Alternative forms

• speclum (Vulgar or Late Latin, Appendix Probi)

Etymology

From speci? +? -culum. Confer with spectrum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?spe.ku.lum/, [?s?p?k??????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?spe.ku.lum/, [?sp??kulum]

Noun

speculum n (genitive specul?); second declension

1. a looking-glass, mirror

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Related terms

• speculor

Descendants

References

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

English

Etymology

From Latin sp?culum (“a little sharp point”), from sp?cum, alternative form of sp?ca (“point, spike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?kj?l?m/

Noun

spiculum (plural spicula)

1. A thrusting javelin used by Romans that replaced the pilum in the late 3rd century.
2. A sharp, pointed crystal, especially of ice.
3. (zoology) A sharp, needle-like structure, especially those making up the skeleton of a sponge.
4. (astronomy) A small radial emission of gas seen in the chromosphere and corona of the sun.

Synonyms

• (sharp, pointed crystal): spicula
• (sharp, needle-like strucutre): spicule
• (small radial emission of gas): spicule

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of sp?cum, alternative form of sp?ca (“point, spike”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?spi?.ku.lum/, [?s?pi?k??????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?spi.ku.lum/, [?spi?kulum]

Noun

sp?culum n (genitive sp?cul?); second declension

1. little sharp point or sting
2. dart, arrow

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

• Catalan: espígol
• Italian: spicchio, ? spigolo
• Portuguese: espicho, ? espículo
• Spanish: espliego

References

• spiculum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• spiculum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• spiculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• spiculum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin