pediculus

See also: Pediculus

English

Noun

pediculus (plural pediculi)

1. A louse (of the family Pediculidae), especially Pediculus humanus.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /peˈdi.ku.lus/, [pɛˈd̪ɪkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /peˈdi.ku.lus/, [peˈd̪iːkulus]

Etymology 1

From pēs, pedis (“foot”) +‎ -culus (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun

pediculus m (genitive pediculī); second declension

1. A little foot.

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2. (botany) A footstalk or pedicel of fruit or leaf.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pediculus	pediculī
Genitive	pediculī	pediculōrum
Dative	pediculō	pediculīs
Accusative	pediculum	pediculōs
Ablative	pediculō	pediculīs
Vocative	pedicule	pediculī

Alternative forms

• pēduculus, pēduclus

Derived terms

• pedicellus
• *pediciolus
  • → Late Latin: petiolus, peciolus

Related terms

• peda
• pedeplāna
• pedester
• pedetemptim
• pedica
• pedicinus
• pedis
• pedisequus
• peditātus
• peditō
• pedocucullus
• pedunculus
• pedālis
• pedāneus
• pedārius
• pedātim
• pedātus
• pedātūra
• pedēs
• pedō
• pedūle
• pedūlis
• pēs

 

Descendants

• → Catalan: pedicle
• → English: pedicle
• → French: pédicule
• → Portuguese: pedículo
• → Spanish: pedículo
• from an unattested Vulgar Latin *pedicullus
  • Sicilian: pidicuḍḍu

Etymology 2

From pēdis (“louse”) +‎ -culus (“diminutive suffix”).

Noun

pēdiculus m (genitive pēdiculī); second declension

1. A louse
2. A sea louse

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pēdiculus	pēdiculī
Genitive	pēdiculī	pēdiculōrum
Dative	pēdiculō	pēdiculīs
Accusative	pēdiculum	pēdiculōs
Ablative	pēdiculō	pēdiculīs
Vocative	pēdicule	pēdiculī

Derived terms

• pēdicellus
• pēdiculō
• pēdiculōsus

 

Descendants

• Latin: pēduculus (see there for further descendants)
• Sicilian: pidicchiu
• →⇒ Italian: pediculosi
• → Spanish: pedículo
• → Translingual: Pediculus

References

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