hibernaculum

English

Etymology

From Latin hībernāculum (“winter quarters”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /haɪ.bəˈnak.juː.ləm/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌhaɪ.bəɹˈnæk.jə.ləm/
• Hyphenation: hi‧ber‧nac‧u‧lum

Noun

hibernaculum (plural hibernacula)

1. (zoology) The place where a hibernating animal shelters for the winter.
   • 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 10, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:

     Aeolus Cave, which is set into a wooded hillside in Dorset, Vermont, is believed to be the largest bat hibernaculum in New England; it is estimated that before white-nose hit, nearly three hundred thousand bats—some from as far away as Ontario and Rhode Island—came there to spend the winter.

2. (botany) A bud, case, or protective covering that a plant uses to survive the challenging environmental conditions during a dormancy period.

Related terms

• hibernacle

Translations

zoology: shelter for winter

• Finnish: talvipesä

botany: wintering bud

• Finnish: talvehtimissilmu, vuosiverso, turio, hibernaakkeli

See also

• turion

Latin

Etymology

From hībernō (“spend the winter”) +‎ -culum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hiː.berˈnaː.ku.lum/, [hiːbɛrˈnäːkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /i.berˈna.ku.lum/, [iberˈnäːkulum]

Noun

hībernāculum n (genitive hībernāculī); second declension

1. winter quarters; a winter residence
2. (in the plural) winter encampment

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	hībernāculum	hībernācula
Genitive	hībernāculī	hībernāculōrum
Dative	hībernāculō	hībernāculīs
Accusative	hībernāculum	hībernācula
Ablative	hībernāculō	hībernāculīs
Vocative	hībernāculum	hībernācula

Related terms

• hībernālis
• hībernō
• hībernum
• hībernus

Descendants

• → Catalan: hivernacle
• → English: hibernacle, hibernaculum
• French: hivernail

References

• “hibernaculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hibernaculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.