famulo

Esperanto

Etymology

fama (“famous”) +‎ -ulo (“person”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [faˈmulo]
• Rhymes: -ulo
• Hyphenation: fa‧mu‧lo

Noun

famulo (accusative singular famulon, plural famuloj, accusative plural famulojn)

1. famous person, celebrity

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin famulus, from Proto-Italic *famelos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁-m-eló-, derived from the root *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.mu.lo/, [ˈfäːmul̺o]
• Hyphenation: fà‧mu‧lo

Noun

famulo m (plural famuli)

1. (literary, chiefly Ancient Rome) servant

Synonyms

• famiglio, servo

Related terms

• famiglia

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Latin

Noun

(deprecated template usage) famulō

1. dative singular of famulus
2. ablative singular of famulus

References

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