folliculus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from LatinCategory:English terms borrowed from Latin#FOLLICULUSCategory:English terms derived from Latin#FOLLICULUS folliculus.

Noun

folliculus (plural folliculi)Category:English lemmas#FOLLICULUSCategory:English nouns#FOLLICULUSCategory:English countable nouns#FOLLICULUSCategory:English nouns with irregular plurals#FOLLICULUSCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#FOLLICULUSCategory:Pages with entries#FOLLICULUSCategory:Pages with 2 entries#FOLLICULUS

  1. Obsolete form of follicleCategory:English obsolete forms#FOLLICULUS.

Latin

Etymology

From follis (“purse, sack”) +‎ -culusCategory:Latin terms suffixed with -culus#FOLLICULUS.

Pronunciation

Noun

folliculus m (genitive folliculī)Category:Latin lemmas#FOLLICULUSCategory:Latin nouns#FOLLICULUSCategory:Latin second declension nouns#FOLLICULUSCategory:Latin masculine nouns in the second declension#FOLLICULUSCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#FOLLICULUSCategory:Latin masculine nouns#FOLLICULUSCategory:Pages with entries#FOLLICULUSCategory:Pages with 2 entries#FOLLICULUS; second declension

  1. a small bellows
  2. a small sack
  3. an inflated ball (for sport)
  4. a bud
  5. husk, pod, shell, skin
  6. (Late LatinCategory:Late Latin#FOLLICULUS, anatomyCategory:la:Anatomy#FOLLICULUS) sac
  7. (Late LatinCategory:Late Latin#FOLLICULUS, anatomyCategory:la:Anatomy#FOLLICULUS) bladder (urinary)
  8. (Late LatinCategory:Late Latin#FOLLICULUS, anatomyCategory:la:Anatomy#FOLLICULUS) scrotum

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Descendants

References

  • “folliculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “folliculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "folliculus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • “folliculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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