English

Noun

pessulus ‎(plural pessuli)

1. (anatomy) A delicate bar of cartilage connecting the dorsal and ventral extremities of the first pair of bronchial cartilages in the syrinx of birds.

Latin

Alternative forms

• pessula

Noun

pessulus m ‎(genitive pessulī); second declension

1. a bolt (of a door)

Inflection

Second declension.

References

• pessulus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pessulus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “pessulus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• pessulus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pessulus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin