malleolus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin malleolus (a small hammer or mallet).

Pronunciation

Noun

malleolus (plural malleoli or malleoluses)

  1. (anatomy) The bony prominence with a shape likened to a hammerhead, especially each of those at the distal end of the fibula or tibia, on either side of the ankle joint.
    Meronyms: lateral malleolus, medial malleolus, posterior malleolus

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Latin

Etymology

From malleus (a hammer, mallet) + -olus.

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /malˈle.o.lus/, [mälˈlʲeɔɫ̪ʊs̠]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /malˈle.o.lus/, [mälˈlɛːolus]

Noun

malleolus m (genitive malleolī); second declension

  1. Diminutive of malleus:
    1. A small hammer or mallet.
    2. (horticulture) A hammer-shaped slip, a mallet-shoot.
    3. (weaponry) A kind of fire-dart.
    4. The tongue of a shoe buckle.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative malleolus malleolī
Genitive malleolī malleolōrum
Dative malleolō malleolīs
Accusative malleolum malleolōs
Ablative malleolō malleolīs
Vocative malleole malleolī

Descendants

References

  • malleolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • malleolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • malleolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • malleolus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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