fenuculum

fenuculum

Latin

Alternative forms

• foeniculum
• faeniculum
• fēniculum

Etymology

From fēnum +‎ -uculum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /feːˈnu.ku.lum/, [feːˈnʊkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /feˈnu.ku.lum/, [feˈnuːkulum]

Noun

fēnuculum n (genitive fēnuculī); second declension

1. (Vulgar Latin, Late Latin) fennel

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fēnuculum	fēnucula
Genitive	fēnuculī	fēnuculōrum
Dative	fēnuculō	fēnuculīs
Accusative	fēnuculum	fēnucula
Ablative	fēnuculō	fēnuculīs
Vocative	fēnuculum	fēnucula

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: finocchio
    • → Albanian: finok
  • Sicilian: finocchiu
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: fenugu
• North-Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Ligurian: fenóggio
    • Lombard: fenògg, fineucc
    • Piedmontese: fnoj
  • Friulian: fenoli
  • Istriot: fanucio
  • Venetian: fenocio
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: fenôly, fenuely
  • Old French: fenoil
    • → Old English: finugl
      • Middle English: fenel
        • English: fennel
    • French: fenouil
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: fonoll, fenoll, fonell
  • Gascon: holh
  • Occitan: fenolh

    Limousin: fenuelh

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: fenollo, fenullo, finollo, cenollo, cenullo, cinollo

    Ribagorçan: fenoll, cenoll

  • Asturian: fenoyu
  • Galician: fiúncho, fiollo, fionllo
  • Portuguese: funcho
  • Spanish: hinojo
• Borrowings:
  • → German: Fenchel
    • → Russian: фенхель (fenxelʹ)
  • → Middle Dutch: venkel
    • Dutch: venkel