vehiculum

Latin

Alternative forms

• vehiclum

Etymology

By surface analysis, vehō (“to bear, carry, convey; ride”) +‎ -culum. The term may be derived from Proto-Italic *weɣitlom, from Proto-Indo-European *weǵʰ-í-tlom, whence also perhaps Sanskrit वहित्र (vahitra).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [weˈ(ɦ)ɪ.kʊ.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [veˈiː.ku.lum]

Noun

vehiculum n (genitive vehiculī); second declension

1. A means of transport; vehicle, conveyance, carriage; wagon, cart; ship.

   Synonyms: carpentum, currus, vectābulum, vectāculum

2. An agricultural implement for cutting down grain; reaping-machine.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	vehiculum	vehicula
genitive	vehiculī	vehiculōrum
dative	vehiculō	vehiculīs
accusative	vehiculum	vehicula
ablative	vehiculō	vehiculīs
vocative	vehiculum	vehicula

Related terms

• vectābilis
• vectābulum
• vectārius
• vectātiō
• vectīgal n
• vectīgāliārius
• vectīgālis
• vectiō f
• vectitātus
• vectō
• vector m
• vectōrius
• vectrīx
• vectūra f
• vectūrārius
• vectūrus
• vectus
• vehātiō
• vehes f
• vehiculāris
• vehiculārius
• vehō

Descendants

• → Asturian: vehículu m
• → Catalan: vehicle m
• → Galician: vehicle m
• → German: Vehikel n
• → French: véhicule m
  • → English: vehicle
  • → Romanian: vehicul n
• → Irish: feithicil f
• → Italian: veicolo m
• → Portuguese: veículo m
• >? Sardinian: ìgulu m
• → Spanish: vehículo m

Further reading

• “vehiculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vehiculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "vehiculum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “vehiculum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1650, column 3.
• vehiculum in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung, column 3383
• “vehiculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers