scalpellum

From Latin scalpellum. Doublet of scalpel.

scalpellum (plural scalpella)

1. (zoology) One of the four filamentous organs in the proboscis of hemipterous insects.

From scalprum +‎ -lum (diminutive suffix).

scalpellum n (genitive scalpellī); second declension

1. scalpel, lancet
2. grafting knife

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “scalpellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scalpellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "scalpellum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• scalpellum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “scalpellum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “scalpellum”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin