vexillum

English

Etymology

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Noun

vexillum (plural vexilla)

1. A flag, banner, or standard.
2. A company of troops serving under one standard.
3. The sign of the cross.
4. (botany) The upper petal of a papilionaceous flower.
5. (zoology) The rhachis and web of a feather taken together; the vane.

Related terms

• vexilloid
• vexillar
• vexillary

Translations

a flag, banner or standard

• Portuguese: vexilo (pt) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

a company of troops serving under one standard

• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

sign of the cross — see sign of the cross

the upper petal of a papilionaceous flower

• Portuguese: vexilo (pt) m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

vane — see vane

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “vexillum”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Etymology

Diminutive noun of vēlum (< (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Italic *wekslom).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u̯ekˈsil.lum/, [u̯ɛkˈs̠ɪlːʲʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vekˈsil.lum/, [veɡˈzilːum]

Noun

1. flag, banner
2. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) accusative singular of vexillum
3. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) vocative singular of vexillum

Descendants

• English: vexillology
• Galician: vexilo
• Portuguese: vexilo

References

• “vexillum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vexillum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vexillum 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)
• vexillum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to fix the ensign on the general's tent (as a signal to commence the engagement): vexillum proponere (Liv. 22. 3)
    
• “vexillum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “vexillum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin