vesicula

See also: vesícula

English

Etymology

Noun

vesicula (plural vesiculae)

(medicine, anatomy) A vesicle (small blister).

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for vesicula in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of vēsīca.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /weːˈsiː.ku.la/, [weːˈsiː.kʊ.ɫa]

Noun

vēsīcula f (genitive vēsīculae); first declension

Little bladder.
Blister (which is like a little bladder as a small sac of fluid).

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vēsīcula	vēsīculae
Genitive	vēsīculae	vēsīculārum
Dative	vēsīculae	vēsīculīs
Accusative	vēsīculam	vēsīculās
Ablative	vēsīculā	vēsīculīs
Vocative	vēsīcula	vēsīculae

Descendants

Asturian: vesícula
Catalan: vesícula
English: vesicle
French: vésicule
Galician: vesícula

Italian: vescicola
Portuguese: vesícula
Romanian: veziculă
Spanish: vesícula

References

vesicula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
vesicula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
vesicula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
vesicula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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