nodulus

Borrowed from Latin nōdulus. Doublet of nodule.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈnɒd.jʊ.ləs/, /ˈnɒd͡ʒ.ʊ.ləs/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑd͡ʒ.ə.ləs/
• Rhymes: -ɒdjʊləs, -ɒdʒələs
• Hyphenation: nod‧u‧lus

nodulus (plural noduli)

1. A nodule; a little knot or lump.
2. (neuroanatomy) The part of the vestibulocerebellum that is at the end of the vermis

   Synonym: nodule

• flocculus

From nōdus (“a knot; knob; bond”) +‎ -ulus.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnoː.dʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnɔː.d̪u.lus]

nōdulus m (genitive nōdulī); second declension

1. diminutive of nōdus (“knot”)

Second-declension noun.

• “nodulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• nodulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.