viculus

Latin

Etymology

A diminutive form of vīcus (“a village”, “a street”), formed as: vīcus +‎ -ulus (suffix forming diminutives).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯iː.ku.lus/, [ˈu̯iːkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvi.ku.lus/, [ˈviːkulus]

Noun

vīculus m (genitive vīculī); second declension

1. a small village or hamlet
2. (Medieval Latin) a minor lane, side-street, or alley

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vīculus	vīculī
Genitive	vīculī	vīculōrum
Dative	vīculō	vīculīs
Accusative	vīculum	vīculōs
Ablative	vīculō	vīculīs
Vocative	vīcule	vīculī

Synonyms

• (minor lane, side-street, alley): angiportus (Classical)

Descendants

• Italian: vicolo
• Piedmontese: vìcol

References

• “vīcŭlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “viculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• viculus 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)
• vīcŭlus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,673/3.
• “uīculus” on page 2,058/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “viculus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1,097/2