flosculus

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

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’s 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
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