articul-, artic- +

1. Not affecting a joint.
2. Remote from a joint.

A dislocation of a joint.

1. An individual thing or element of a class; a particular object or item; such as, an article of clothing; articles of food.
2. A particular section or item of a series in a written document, as in a contract, constitution, or treaty.
3. A nonfictional literary composition that forms an independent part of a publication; such as, of a newspaper or magazine.
4. In grammar, the part of speech used to indicate nouns and to specify their application; any of the words belonging to this part of speech. In English, the indefinite articles are "a" and "an"; and the definite article is "the". Their force is generally to impart specificity to the noun or to single out the referent from the class named by the noun.
5. A particular part or subject; a specific matter or point.
6. Etymology: from about 1230, "separate parts of anything written", from Old French article, from Latin articulus, diminutive of artus "a joint".

The meaning was extended to "a small division", then generalized to "an item, a thing". Older senses were preserved in Articles of War or "military regulations" (1716) and Articles of Confederation (U.S. history).

The meaning of "literary composition in a journal, etc." (independent, but part of a larger work) was first recorded in 1712. The meaning of "pieces of property" (clothing, etc.) was first recorded in 1796.

Of or relating to a joint or joints; such as, the articular surfaces of bones.

Relating to or affecting the joints of the body.

1. To express thoughts, ideas, or feelings coherently: "He was unable to articulate his grief regarding his wife's death."
2. To pronounce something or to speak, or to utter, intelligible speech clearly.
3. Able to express thoughts, ideas, or feelings coherently.
4. To form the kind of joint or connection that allows movement.
5. With joints or jointed segments, as in the bodies of higher vertebrates and arthropods.

1. The act of vocal expression; utterance or enunciation: "She expressed an articulation of the group's sentiments."
2. The act or manner of producing a speech sound, especially a consonant.
3. A jointing together or being jointed together and the method or manner of jointing.
4. In anatomy, a fixed or movable joint between bones, or a movable joint between inflexible parts of the body of an animal, as the divisions of an appendage in arthropods.
5. In botany, a joint between two separable parts, as a leaf and a stem or a node or a space on a stem between two nodes.
6. Etymology: from about 1541, "the action of bending the joints", from Old French articulation, from Middle Latin articulationem, articulatio, from articulatus, the past particple of articulare, "to separate (meat) into joints"; also "to utter distinctly", from articulus, diminutive of artus, "joint". Articulate, as a verb, in the sense of "divide (vocal sounds) into distinct and significant parts" is first recorded in 1594; then it was generalized into the sense of "express in words" from about 1691.

1. In anatomy, a device for effecting a joint-like union.
2. A person or thing that articulates.
3. A movable organ; such as, the tongue, lips, or uvula; the action of which is involved in the production of speech sounds.
4. A part of the vocal organs that helps form speech sounds. Active articulators include the pharynx, soft palate, lips, and tongue, while the passive articulators include the upper teeth, the alveolar ridge, and the hard palate.
5. In dentistry, a mechanical device, representing the jaws, to which casts may be attached which is used in the making of dentures.

1. Pertaining, or relating, to utterance or expression.
2. The action or manner of jointing or interrelating.

Having, or consisting of, two joints; such as the antennae of certain insects.

The union or articulation of bones to form a joint.

To disjoint.

1. To separate at the joints; to disjoint.
2. To make or to become disjointed, as the bones of a body or stems of a plant.

The amputation of a limb through a joint, without cutting the bone.

1. To dislocate a joint.
2. To cut off at the joint.