stabilimentum

English

A stabilimentum

Etymology

Latin

Noun

stabilimentum (plural stabilimenta)

1. A particular web structure made by some spiders.
   • 1912, John Henry Comstock, The Spider Book: A Manual for the Study of the Spiders and Their Near Relatives, the Scorpions, Pseudoscorpions, Whip-scorpions, Harvestmen, and Other Members of the Class Arachnida:

     The stabilimentum of Cyclosa differs greatly from that of a garden spider. It often consists largely of the remains of the insects that the spider has destroyed fastened together and in place with threads of silk.

Further reading

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Latin

Etymology

From stabilio +‎ -mentum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sta.bi.liːˈmen.tum/, [s̠t̪äbɪlʲiːˈmɛn̪t̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sta.bi.liˈmen.tum/, [st̪äbiliˈmɛn̪t̪um]

Noun

stabilīmentum n (genitive stabilīmentī); second declension

1. stay, support, stabiliment

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	stabilīmentum	stabilīmenta
Genitive	stabilīmentī	stabilīmentōrum
Dative	stabilīmentō	stabilīmentīs
Accusative	stabilīmentum	stabilīmenta
Ablative	stabilīmentō	stabilīmentīs
Vocative	stabilīmentum	stabilīmenta

References

• “stabilimentum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• stabilimentum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• stabilimentum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.