Acetabulum, acetábuli, n. g. pen. corr. ab accipiendo dicitur, Plin. Cels. B. A measure conteyning two ounces and a halfe: after George Agricola of wine it wayeth two ounces, two drammes and halfe, one graine and a thirde parte. Also a little dessell as asawcer or goblet.Acetabula in corporibus. Plin. The hollownesse wherein the huckle bone turneth and enery other thing like to it.Acetabula item sunt veluti quidam caliculi in ijs piscibus qui molles appellantut, vt in polypo. Plin. A partition or hollownesse in the legge of a fish called Polipus which is like to a little cuppe.Acerabula sunt etiam præstigiatorum vascula.Senec.Bores or round Gablets that Iuglers make their conueyaunce in.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ăcētābŭlum, i, n. [acetum], orig., a vessel for vinegar, Isid. 20 Orig. 4, 12; but in gen., I.Any cup-shaped vessel, Quint. 8, 6, 35; Vulg. Ex. 25, 29: acetabula argen tea, id. Num. 7, 84; as a liquid or dry measure, the fourth part of a hemina, Cato R. R. 102; Plin. 18, 7, 14; 21, 34, 109; and with jugglers, the cup or goblet with which they performed their feats, Sen. Ep. 45, 7.—II. In anatomy, the socket of the hip-bone, Plin. 28, 11, 49, 179.—III. In zoölogy, the suckers or cavities in the arms of polypi, Plin. 9, 29, 46; 30, 48.—IV. In botany, the cup of flowers, id. 18, 26, 65, 245.