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- Latin · learned borrowing fromacētābulum“vinegar saucer, <small>¹<big>⁄</big>₄₈</small> congius”
- English todayacetabulum
Learned borrowing from Latin acētābulum (“vinegar saucer, ¹⁄₄₈ congius”), from acētum (“vinegar”) + -bulum (“-bule: a vessel for”).
Words from the same roots
Latinacētābulum all →
acetable
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.