malleolus
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Borrowed from Latin malleolus (“a small hammer or mallet”); itself from malleus (“a hammer, mallet”) + -olus (“diminutive suffix”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /maˈliː.əl.əs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /məˈliː.əl.əs/
- Rhymes: -iːələs
Noun[edit]
malleolus (plural malleoli or malleoluses)
- (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
Derived terms[edit]
- malleolar (adjective)
Translations[edit]
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References[edit]
- “malleolus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “malleolus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From malleus (“a hammer, mallet”) + -olus.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /malˈle.o.lus/, [mälˈlʲeɔɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /malˈle.o.lus/, [mälˈlɛːolus]
Noun[edit]
malleolus m (genitive malleolī); second declension
- diminutive of malleus:
Declension[edit]
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[edit]
- Catalan: mallol, → mal·lèol
- → English: malleolus
- → French: malléole
- Galician: amalló
- Italian: magliolo, → malleolo
- Romanian: măior
- Spanish: majuelo, → maléolo
References[edit]
- “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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