Noun: speculum
Hyphenation:
Gender: Neuter
Declension: Second
Nominative
| Singular | speculum |
| Plural | specula |
Genitive
| Singular | speculī |
| Plural | speculōrum |
Dative
| Singular | speculō |
| Plural | speculīs |
Accusative
| Singular | speculum |
| Plural | specula |
Ablative
| Singular | speculō |
| Plural | speculīs |
Vocative
| Singular | speculum |
| Plural | specula |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like speculum
palmētum,
miliardum,
rēctangulum,
bactērium,
frūctum,
melimēlum,
scītum,
scūtum,
lanthanum,
sertum,
sacrum,
pentaptōtum,
dēcrēmentum,
sorbum,
fundibulum,
alphabētum,
siglum,
signum,
flābrum,
nūtrīmentum, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *speḱ-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-yeti
4. Proto-Indo-European *spéḱyeti
5. Proto-Italic *spekjō
6. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
7. Proto-Indo-European *-trom
8. Proto-Indo-European *-tlom
9. Proto-Italic *-klom
10. Latin speculum
11. By surface analysis, speciō (“look at”) + -ulum (instrument suffix). Possibly from pre-Latin *spektlom, with the ending derived from the Proto-Indo-European instrument noun suffix *-tlom (see -culum). Alternatively from pre-Latin *spekelom or *spekolom, with the neuter form of the agent noun suffix -ulus. Compare spectrum.
Verbs referencing "speculum"
Italian Nouns
specchio, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
speil, Spanish Nouns
espejo, Galician Nouns
espello, Catalan Nouns
espill, Icelandic Nouns
spegill, Old Portuguese Nouns
espelho, Portuguese Nouns
espelho, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
spegel, Swedish Nouns
spegel, Danish Nouns
spejl, Italian Nouns
specolo, Asturian Nouns
espeyu, Irish Nouns
spéacla, Catalan Nouns
espècul, Faroese Nouns
spegil, Italian Nouns
speglio, Romanian Nouns
specul, English Nouns
speculum literature.
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