flosculus

Latin

Alternative forms

• *flōriculus (Vulgar Latin)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰleh₃-

Proto-Indo-European *-s

Proto-Indo-European *bʰléh₃s

Proto-Italic *flōs

Latin flōs

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Proto-Italic *-kelos

Latin -culus

Latin flōsculus

From flōs (“flower”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).

Noun

flōsculus m (genitive flōsculī); second declension

1. diminutive of flōs (“flower”)
2. flowery ornament (in speech)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	flōsculus	flōsculī
genitive	flōsculī	flōsculōrum
dative	flōsculō	flōsculīs
accusative	flōsculum	flōsculōs
ablative	flōsculō	flōsculīs
vocative	flōscule	flōsculī

Descendants

• Catalan: flòscul
• Danish: floskel
• English: floscule
• Galician: flósculo
• German: Floskel
• Italian: flosculo
• Norwegian Bokmål: floskel
• Norwegian Nynorsk: floskel
• Portuguese: flósculo
• Spanish: flósculo
• Swedish: floskel

References

• “flosculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “flosculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "flosculus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “flosculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • fine, rhetorical phrases: flosculi, rhetorum pompa