flosculus
Latin
Alternative forms
- *flōriculus (Vulgar Latin)
Etymology
Diminutive form of flōs.
Noun
flōsculus m (genitive flōsculī); second declension
- Diminutive of flos (“flower”)
- flowery ornament (in speech)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | flōsculus | flōsculī |
| Genitive | flōsculī | flōsculōrum |
| Dative | flōsculō | flōsculīs |
| Accusative | flōsculum | flōsculōs |
| Ablative | flōsculō | flōsculīs |
| Vocative | flōscule | flōsculī |
Descendants
- Catalan: flòscul
- English: floscule
- Galician: flósculo
- German: Floskel
- Italian: flosculo
- Portuguese: flósculo
- Spanish: flósculo
References
- “flosculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “flosculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- flosculus 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)
- flosculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- fine, rhetorical phrases: flosculi, rhetorum pompa
- fine, rhetorical phrases: flosculi, rhetorum pompa