torulus

From Latin torulus.

torulus (plural toruli)

1. (zoology) The socket of an antenna.

• rotulus

Diminutive of torus.

torulus m (genitive torulī); second declension

1. a bulge, swelling, small elevation
2. a tuft of hair
3. a muscle
4. sapwood

Second-declension noun.

• Italian: tuorlo

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