articulus.
joint; portion of limb/finger between joints; part; (critical) moment; crisis; point of time; (Vulgate);
Meaning & usage
a point connecting various parts of the body; joint, knot, knuckle.
a limb, member, finger
a short clause; a single word; pronoun, pronominal adjective or article
a member, part, division, point, article
a point in time, moment; division of time, space
a positive decimal integer consisting of a non-zero digit multiplied by a positive integral power of ten.
Where this word comes from
Diminutive from artus (“joint; limbs”) + -culus. In the grammatical sense, it is a semantic loan from Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (árthron).
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