Rediculus
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Latin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Either from redeō (“return”) + -ulus (“diminutive suffix”) or an alteration of rīdiculus, depending on how one chooses to analyse the god.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Classical) IPA(key): /reˈdi.ku.lus/, [rɛˈd̪ɪkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /reˈdi.ku.lus/, [reˈd̪iːkulus]
Proper noun[edit]
Rediculus m sg (genitive Rediculī); second declension
- (Roman mythology) a minor god of ambiguous patronage: either a tutelary god of returning or one of laughter.
- 1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 282, line 23:
- Rediculī fānum extrā portam Capēnam Cornificius . . . . . . . statuit proptereā appellātum esse, quod accēdēns ad urbem Hannibal ex eō locō redierit, quibusdam vīsīs perterritus.
- Cornificius . . . . . . . established that the altar of Rediculus outside the Porta Capena is so called, because Hannibal nearing the City returned from that place, scared away by certain visions.
Declension[edit]
Second-declension noun, singular only.
| Case | Singular |
|---|---|
| Nominative | Rediculus |
| Genitive | Rediculī |
| Dative | Rediculō |
| Accusative | Rediculum |
| Ablative | Rediculō |
| Vocative | Redicule |
References[edit]
Rediculus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia - “Rediculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
