pisciculus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *péysks
Proto-Italic *piskis
Latin piscis
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-e-lós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Proto-Italic *-kelos
Latin -culus
Latin pisciculus

    From piscis (“fish”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).

    Noun

    pisciculus m (genitive pisciculī); second declension

    1. diminutive of piscis (“fish”)
    2. minnow
    3. tiddler
    4. In plural, an early name for Christians, in reference to the waters of baptism, and in allusion to the vesica piscis[1]

    Declension

    Second-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative pisciculus pisciculī
    genitive pisciculī pisciculōrum
    dative pisciculō pisciculīs
    accusative pisciculum pisciculōs
    ablative pisciculō pisciculīs
    vocative piscicule pisciculī

    References

    1. ^ LSJ, Georges, nos pisciculi [1]
    • “pisciculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “pisciculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
    • “pisciculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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