English

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.

Translations

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive noun of vēlum (< Proto-Italic *wekslom).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /wekˈsil.lum/, [wɛkˈsɪl.lũ]

Noun

vexillum n ‎(genitive vexillī); second declension

1. flag, banner
2. accusative singular of vexillum
3. vocative singular of vexillum

Inflection

Second declension.

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, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “vexillum”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, 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