funiculus

From Latin funiculus, diminutive of funis (“rope, cord”) +‎ -culus.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fjʊˈnɪk.jʊl.əs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fjʊˈnɪk.jəl.əs/, /fəˈnɪk.jəl.əs/

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• Rhymes: -ɪkjələs
• Rhymes: -ɪkjʊləs

funiculus (plural funiculi)

1. (anatomy) Any of several cordlike structures, especially the umbilical cord, or a bundle of nerve fibres (white matter) in the spinal cord. The white matter of the spinal cord is made of (posterior, anterior and lateral) columns/funiculi. The grey columns are also called horns but not funiculi.
2. (botany) A stalk that connects the seed (or ovule) with the placenta.

   Synonyms: funicle, umbilical cord

   The elaiosome emerges from the funiculus.

• “funiculus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• “funiculus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.

Diminutive from fūnis (“cord, rope”) +‎ -culus.

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

fūniculus m (genitive fūniculī); second declension

1. a slender rope, cord

Second-declension noun.

• (cord): fūnicula, līnum, vinculum

• “funiculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “funiculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "funiculus", 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)
• funiculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.