articulusn.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxiii. 1360 Eueich simple nombre byneþe ten is digitus. And ten is þe firste articulus. And þe nexte is twenty.

1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum xix. cxxv. sig. Aaaavi/1 Compositus is compowned of Digitus, & of Articulus, as eleuen, twelue, & thirteene, & so forth vnto twentie.

1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 235/2 With him [sc. Vincent of Beauvais] the unit is termed ‘digitus’; when multiplied by ten it becomes the ‘articulus’; while the combination of the articulus and the digitus is the ‘numerus compositus’.

1931 Isis 16 393 (title) The origin of the ghubār numerals, or the Arabian abacus and the articuli.

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 3 ^v Hipocrates esteemed simply the round part of that bone, that entred into ye hollow of another, to be Articulus, & so called it.

1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 32 Articuli are sometimes the Knuckles of the Fingers.

1741 Chambers's Cycl. (ed. 4) I Articularis, articular, in medicine, an epithet applied to a disease which more immediately infests the articuli, or joints.

1760 J. Lee Introd. Bot. iii. xxii. 222 Articulus, a Joint, is the Part of the Culmus that lies between two Geniculi or Knots.

1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals ix. 583 New articuli are continually added to that end of the stem which lies nearest the calyx.

1917 Torreya 17 189 Articuli are swollen joint-like places (nodi) from which branches very often develop.

1926 Amer. Midland Naturalist 10 15 The pappus opens, occupying a horizontal position, through the mechanical effect of the articulus, where the pappus is attached to the pericarp.