"malleolus" meaning in Latin

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Noun

IPA: /malˈle.o.lus/ [Classical-Latin], [mälˈlʲeɔɫ̪ʊs̠] [Classical-Latin], /malˈle.o.lus/ (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical), [mälˈlɛːolus] (note: modern Italianate Ecclesiastical)
Etymology: From malleus (“a hammer, mallet”) + -olus. Etymology templates: {{suffix|la|malleus|olus|gloss1=a hammer, mallet}} malleus (“a hammer, mallet”) + -olus Head templates: {{la-noun|malleolus<2>}} malleolus m (genitive malleolī); second declension Inflection templates: {{la-ndecl|malleolus<2>}} Forms: malleolī [genitive], no-table-tags [table-tags], malleolus [nominative, singular], malleolī [nominative, plural], malleolī [genitive, singular], malleolōrum [genitive, plural], malleolō [dative, singular], malleolīs [dative, plural], malleolum [accusative, singular], malleolōs [accusative, plural], malleolō [ablative, singular], malleolīs [ablative, plural], malleole [singular, vocative], malleolī [plural, vocative]
  1. diminutive of malleus:
    A small hammer or mallet.
    Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-malleolus-la-noun-8kudPTCU Categories (other): Latin masculine nouns in the second declension Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 25 25 26 25
  2. diminutive of malleus:
    (horticulture) A hammer-shaped slip, a mallet-shoot.
    Tags: declension-2, masculine Categories (topical): Horticulture
    Sense id: en-malleolus-la-noun-TnvIHOMB Categories (other): Latin masculine nouns in the second declension Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 25 25 26 25 Topics: agriculture, business, horticulture, lifestyle
  3. diminutive of malleus:
    (weaponry) A kind of fire-dart.
    Tags: declension-2, masculine Categories (topical): Weapons, Tools
    Sense id: en-malleolus-la-noun-nWpigz09 Disambiguation of Tools: 28 21 37 13 Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin masculine nouns in the second declension, Latin terms suffixed with -olus Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 23 23 45 10 Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 25 25 26 25 Disambiguation of Latin terms suffixed with -olus: 24 20 48 8 Topics: engineering, government, military, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, politics, tools, war, weaponry
  4. diminutive of malleus:
    The tongue of a shoe buckle.
    Tags: declension-2, masculine
    Sense id: en-malleolus-la-noun-uUhtcux- Categories (other): Latin masculine nouns in the second declension Disambiguation of Latin masculine nouns in the second declension: 25 25 26 25

Inflected forms

{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "mallol"
          },
          "expansion": "Catalan: mallol",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "mal·lèol",
            "bor": "1",
            "nolb": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ mal·lèol",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Catalan: mallol, → mal·lèol"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "malleolus",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: malleolus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: malleolus"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "malléole",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ French: malléole",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ French: malléole"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gl",
            "2": "amalló"
          },
          "expansion": "Galician: amalló",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Galician: amalló"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "magliolo"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: magliolo",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "malleolo",
            "bor": "1",
            "nolb": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ malleolo",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: magliolo, → malleolo"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "măior"
          },
          "expansion": "Romanian: măior",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romanian: măior"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "majuelo"
          },
          "expansion": "Spanish: majuelo",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "maléolo",
            "bor": "1",
            "nolb": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ maléolo",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Spanish: majuelo, → maléolo"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "malleus",
        "3": "olus",
        "gloss1": "a hammer, mallet"
      },
      "expansion": "malleus (“a hammer, mallet”) + -olus",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From malleus (“a hammer, mallet”) + -olus.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "malleolī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malleolus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malleolī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malleolī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malleolōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malleolō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malleolīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malleolum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malleolōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malleolō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malleolīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malleole",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malleolī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "malleolus<2>"
      },
      "expansion": "malleolus m (genitive malleolī); second declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "malleolus<2>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "25 25 26 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "diminutive of malleus:",
        "A small hammer or mallet."
      ],
      "id": "en-malleolus-la-noun-8kudPTCU",
      "links": [
        [
          "malleus",
          "malleus#Latin"
        ],
        [
          "hammer",
          "hammer"
        ],
        [
          "mallet",
          "mallet"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Horticulture",
          "orig": "la:Horticulture",
          "parents": [
            "Agriculture",
            "Botany",
            "Applied sciences",
            "Biology",
            "Sciences",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 25 26 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "diminutive of malleus:",
        "A hammer-shaped slip, a mallet-shoot."
      ],
      "id": "en-malleolus-la-noun-TnvIHOMB",
      "links": [
        [
          "malleus",
          "malleus#Latin"
        ],
        [
          "horticulture",
          "horticulture"
        ],
        [
          "hammer",
          "hammer"
        ],
        [
          "slip",
          "slip"
        ],
        [
          "mallet",
          "mallet"
        ],
        [
          "shoot",
          "shoot"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "diminutive of malleus:",
        "(horticulture) A hammer-shaped slip, a mallet-shoot."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "agriculture",
        "business",
        "horticulture",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Weapons",
          "orig": "la:Weapons",
          "parents": [
            "Hunting",
            "Military",
            "Tools",
            "Human activity",
            "Society",
            "Technology",
            "Human behaviour",
            "All topics",
            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "23 23 45 10",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "25 25 26 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "24 20 48 8",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin terms suffixed with -olus",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "28 21 37 13",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "la",
          "name": "Tools",
          "orig": "la:Tools",
          "parents": [
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "diminutive of malleus:",
        "A kind of fire-dart."
      ],
      "id": "en-malleolus-la-noun-nWpigz09",
      "links": [
        [
          "malleus",
          "malleus#Latin"
        ],
        [
          "weaponry",
          "weaponry"
        ],
        [
          "fire",
          "fire"
        ],
        [
          "dart",
          "dart"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "diminutive of malleus:",
        "(weaponry) A kind of fire-dart."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "engineering",
        "government",
        "military",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "politics",
        "tools",
        "war",
        "weaponry"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "25 25 26 25",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "diminutive of malleus:",
        "The tongue of a shoe buckle."
      ],
      "id": "en-malleolus-la-noun-uUhtcux-",
      "links": [
        [
          "malleus",
          "malleus#Latin"
        ],
        [
          "tongue",
          "tongue"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/malˈle.o.lus/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mälˈlʲeɔɫ̪ʊs̠]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/malˈle.o.lus/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mälˈlɛːolus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "malleolus"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Latin 4-syllable words",
    "Latin entries with incorrect language header",
    "Latin lemmas",
    "Latin masculine nouns",
    "Latin masculine nouns in the second declension",
    "Latin nouns",
    "Latin second declension nouns",
    "Latin terms suffixed with -olus",
    "Latin terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "la:Tools"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "mallol"
          },
          "expansion": "Catalan: mallol",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ca",
            "2": "mal·lèol",
            "bor": "1",
            "nolb": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ mal·lèol",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Catalan: mallol, → mal·lèol"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "en",
            "2": "malleolus",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ English: malleolus",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ English: malleolus"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "fr",
            "2": "malléole",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ French: malléole",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ French: malléole"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gl",
            "2": "amalló"
          },
          "expansion": "Galician: amalló",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Galician: amalló"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "magliolo"
          },
          "expansion": "Italian: magliolo",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "it",
            "2": "malleolo",
            "bor": "1",
            "nolb": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ malleolo",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Italian: magliolo, → malleolo"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ro",
            "2": "măior"
          },
          "expansion": "Romanian: măior",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Romanian: măior"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "majuelo"
          },
          "expansion": "Spanish: majuelo",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "es",
            "2": "maléolo",
            "bor": "1",
            "nolb": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ maléolo",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Spanish: majuelo, → maléolo"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "la",
        "2": "malleus",
        "3": "olus",
        "gloss1": "a hammer, mallet"
      },
      "expansion": "malleus (“a hammer, mallet”) + -olus",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From malleus (“a hammer, mallet”) + -olus.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "malleolī",
      "tags": [
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "la-ndecl",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malleolus",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malleolī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malleolī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malleolōrum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malleolō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malleolīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malleolum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malleolōs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malleolō",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malleolīs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malleole",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "malleolī",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "malleolus<2>"
      },
      "expansion": "malleolus m (genitive malleolī); second declension",
      "name": "la-noun"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "malleolus<2>"
      },
      "name": "la-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Latin",
  "lang_code": "la",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin diminutive nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "diminutive of malleus:",
        "A small hammer or mallet."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "malleus",
          "malleus#Latin"
        ],
        [
          "hammer",
          "hammer"
        ],
        [
          "mallet",
          "mallet"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin diminutive nouns",
        "la:Horticulture"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "diminutive of malleus:",
        "A hammer-shaped slip, a mallet-shoot."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "malleus",
          "malleus#Latin"
        ],
        [
          "horticulture",
          "horticulture"
        ],
        [
          "hammer",
          "hammer"
        ],
        [
          "slip",
          "slip"
        ],
        [
          "mallet",
          "mallet"
        ],
        [
          "shoot",
          "shoot"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "diminutive of malleus:",
        "(horticulture) A hammer-shaped slip, a mallet-shoot."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "agriculture",
        "business",
        "horticulture",
        "lifestyle"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin diminutive nouns",
        "la:Weapons"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "diminutive of malleus:",
        "A kind of fire-dart."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "malleus",
          "malleus#Latin"
        ],
        [
          "weaponry",
          "weaponry"
        ],
        [
          "fire",
          "fire"
        ],
        [
          "dart",
          "dart"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "diminutive of malleus:",
        "(weaponry) A kind of fire-dart."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "engineering",
        "government",
        "military",
        "natural-sciences",
        "physical-sciences",
        "politics",
        "tools",
        "war",
        "weaponry"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Latin diminutive nouns"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "diminutive of malleus:",
        "The tongue of a shoe buckle."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "malleus",
          "malleus#Latin"
        ],
        [
          "tongue",
          "tongue"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "declension-2",
        "masculine"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/malˈle.o.lus/",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mälˈlʲeɔɫ̪ʊs̠]",
      "tags": [
        "Classical-Latin"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/malˈle.o.lus/",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    },
    {
      "ipa": "[mälˈlɛːolus]",
      "note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
    }
  ],
  "word": "malleolus"
}

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