foculum

Latin

Etymology 1

From *foviculum, from foveō (“to warm”) +‎ -culum (“instrumental suffix”). Attested once in Plautus and once in a gloss citing the former.

Pronunciation

Noun

fōculum n (genitive fōculī); second declension

  1. (rare) device for warming
Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative fōculum fōcula
genitive fōculī fōculōrum
dative fōculō fōculīs
accusative fōculum fōcula
ablative fōculō fōculīs
vocative fōculum fōcula

Etymology 2

Noun

foculum

  1. accusative singular of foculus

References

  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “foveō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 237
  • “fōculum” in volume 6, column 1, line 987 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
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