Rediculus

Latin

Etymology

Either from redeō (“return”) +‎ -ulus (“diminutive suffix”) or an alteration of rīdiculus, depending on how one chooses to analyse the god.

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Rediculus m sg (genitive Rediculī); second declension

  1. (Roman mythology) a minor god of ambiguous patronage: either a tutelary god of returning or one of laughter.
    • 1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 282, line 23:
      Rediculī fānum extrā portam Capēnam Cornificius . . . . . . . statuit proptereā appellātum esse, quod accēdēns ad urbem Hannibal ex eō locō redierit, quibusdam vīsīs perterritus.
      Cornificius . . . . . . . established that the altar of Rediculus outside the Porta Capena is so called, because Hannibal nearing the City returned from that place, scared away by certain visions.

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

singular
nominative Rediculus
genitive Rediculī
dative Rediculō
accusative Rediculum
ablative Rediculō
vocative Redicule

References

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