flucticulus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-?

Proto-Indo-European *bʰlewH-

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *bʰluHyéti?

Proto-Italic [Term?]

Latin fluō

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin flūctus

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-e-lós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Proto-Italic *-kelos

Latin -culus

Latin flūcticulus

From flūctus (“a wave, billow”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fɫʊkˈtɪ.kʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [flukˈtiː.ku.lus]

Noun

flūcticulus m (genitive flūcticulī); second declension

1. diminutive of flūctus (“wave, billow”): a little wave, wavelet, ripple

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	flūcticulus	flūcticulī
genitive	flūcticulī	flūcticulōrum
dative	flūcticulō	flūcticulīs
accusative	flūcticulum	flūcticulōs
ablative	flūcticulō	flūcticulīs
vocative	flūcticule	flūcticulī

References

• “flucticulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “flucticulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.