gubernaculum

From Latin gubernāculum. Doublet of governail.

gubernaculum (plural gubernacula)

1. (anatomy) Either of a pair of folds of peritoneum that attach to the caudal end of the gonads (testes in males and ovaries in females).

From gubernō (“I steer”) and -culum.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ɡu.berˈnaː.ku.lum/, [ɡʊ.bɛrˈnaː.kʊ.ɫũ]

gubernāculum n (genitive gubernāculī); second declension

1. the steering-oar, helm, rudder
2. management

Second declension.

• → English: gubernaculum
• Old French: governail
  • → Middle English: governaile
    • English: governail
  • French: gouvernail
• Galician: gobernallo

• gubernaculum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gubernaculum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gubernaculum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• gubernaculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to hold the reins of government: ad gubernacula (metaph. only in plur.) rei publicae sedere
    
  • to hold the reins of government: gubernacula rei publicae tractare
    
  • to steer: gubernaculum tractare
    
• gubernaculum in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• gubernaculum in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Morwood, James. A Latin Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.