iugulum

• jugulum, iugulus, jugulus

From iugum (“a yoke, collar”) + -ulum (diminutive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈjʊ.ɡʊ.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈjuː.ɡu.lum]

iugulum n (genitive iugulī); second declension

1. (anatomy) the collarbone
   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 11.43.98:

     Terrestrium solus homo bipes. uni iuguli, umeri, ceteris armi; uni ulnae.

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2. (transferred sense) the hollow part of the neck above the collarbone
3. (transferred sense) the throat
   • c. 117 CE, Tacitus, Annales 3.15:

      […]; et coepta luce perfosso iugulo, iacente humi gladio, repertus est.

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4. (figurative) a murder, slaughter

   Synonyms: nex, lētum, homicīdium, excidium, occīsiō, occīdiō

5. (figurative) the main point of one's argument
   • c. 95 CE, Quintilianus, Institutio Oratoria 8.6.51:

      […], pedem conferre et iugulum petere et sanguinem mittere, inde sunt, nec offendunt tamen.

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

• Iugula
• iugulō

• iugulātiō
• iugulātor
• iugum

• Dalmatian: zoglo
• Italian: giugolo
• Sardinian: thucru, thruccu, thùgulu, trughu, sughu^[1]

• “jugulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “iugulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "iugulum", 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)