radicula

See also: Radicula

Latin

Etymology

From rādīc- (“root”) +‎ -ula (diminutive ending).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /raːˈdiː.ku.la/, [räːˈd̪iːkʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /raˈdi.ku.la/, [räˈd̪iːkulä]

Noun

rādīcula f (genitive rādīculae); first declension

1. little root, rootlet

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	rādīcula	rādīculae
Genitive	rādīculae	rādīculārum
Dative	rādīculae	rādīculīs
Accusative	rādīculam	rādīculās
Ablative	rādīculā	rādīculīs
Vocative	rādīcula	rādīculae

Derived terms

• *rādī̆ca

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Romanian: ridiche, rădiche
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: radicchio m (see there for further descendants)
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: arriga (Campidanese), raigla (Logudorese, obsolete)
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: ardile, radigle
  • Ligurian: reigua
  • Lombard: ridicc, redicc
  • Venetian: raicio
• Borrowings:
  • → Byzantine Greek: ῥαδίκλα (rhadíkla)
  • → English: radicle, radicule
  • → French: radicule
  • →? Gascon: arredigle
  • → Welsh: rhadicl
    • → Welsh: rhuddygl

References

• Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “radīcula”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 524
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “radīcula”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 10: R, page 20

Further reading

• “radicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “radicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• radicula 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)
• radicula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.