volsella

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English

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Noun

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volsella (plural volsellae)

  1. A male reproductive appendage in some insects.
  2. Alternative form of vulsellum
    • 1867, William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan, The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery:
      The projecting portion of tumour must be seized with a strong volsella, and dragged and slightly twisted until removed.

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Latin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From vulsus.

Noun

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volsella f (genitive volsellae); first declension

  1. A pair of tweezers
    • c. 47 CE, Aulus Cornelius Celsus, De Medicina[1], archived from the original on 2022-10-03, section 7.12:
      Protinus autem ubi plus sanguinis [e gingiva] profluit, scire licet, aliquid ex osse fractum esse. Ergo specillo conquirenda est testa, quae recessit, et volsella protrahenda est.
      However, when a lot of blood immediately flows out [of the gum], you can tell that some part of the bone has been broken off. So the fragment that sank in should be found with a probe and pulled out with a pair of tweezers.
    • 96 CE, Martial, Epigrammata, 9.27:
      Cum...
      Nec vivat ullus in tuo pilus crure,
      Purgentque saevae cana labra volsellae...
      When ... no hair lives on your leg, and cruel tweezers cleanse your gray-haired lips [of hair]...
  2. A kind of forceps

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative volsella volsellae
Genitive volsellae volsellārum
Dative volsellae volsellīs
Accusative volsellam volsellās
Ablative volsellā volsellīs
Vocative volsella volsellae

References

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  • volsella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • volsella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.