Borrowed fromLatinarticulus.Doublet ofarticle.
articulus (pluralarticuli)
- (zoology) Ajoint of thecirri of theCrinoidea.
- (zoology) Ajoint orsegment of anarthropodappendage.
a joint of the cirri of a crinoid
a joint or segment of an arthropod appendage
Diminutive fromartus(“joint; limbs”) +-culus. In the grammatical sense, it is asemantic loan fromAncient Greekἄρθρον(árthron).
articulus m (genitivearticulī);second declension
- apointconnectingvariousparts of thebody;joint,knot,knuckle.
- alimb,member,finger
- (grammar) ashortclause; asingleword;pronoun,pronominaladjective orarticle
- (figuratively) amember,part,division,point,article
- (figuratively) apoint intime,moment;division of time,space
- (mathematics) apositivedecimalinteger consisting of a non-zerodigit multiplied by a positive integralpower often.
- 1544,w:Orontius Finaeus,Arithmetica Practica, liber I, cap. 1[1]
Articulus vero dicitur numerus, qui ex decem unitatibus, vel binariis, aut ternariis, aliisve decuplatis consurgit numeris: cuiusmodi sunt decem, viginti, triginta, quadraginta, quinquaginta, centum, mille, et similes numeri in naturali serie articulatim distributi.- A number is called anarticle, on the other hand, when it is arisen from a single ten, or a double ten, or a triple ten, or other ten-fold numbers: of which are ten, twenty, thirty, forty, fifty, one hundred, one thousand, and similar numbers distributed point by point in natural series.
Second-declension noun.
- “articulus”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879)A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “articulus”, inCharlton T. Lewis (1891)An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "articulus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’sGlossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- articulus inGaffiot, Félix (1934)Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894)Latin Phrase-Book[2], London:Macmillan and Co.
- (ambiguous) just at the critical moment:in ipso discrimine (articulo) temporis