folliculus

Latin

Etymology

From follis (“purse, sack”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /folˈli.ku.lus/, [fɔlˈlʲɪkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /folˈli.ku.lus/, [folˈliːkulus]

Noun

folliculus m (genitive folliculī); second declension

1. a small bellows
2. a small sack
3. an inflated ball (for sport)
4. a bud
5. husk, pod, shell, skin
6. (Late Latin, anatomy) sac
7. (Late Latin, anatomy) bladder (urinary)
8. (Late Latin, anatomy) scrotum

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	folliculus	folliculī
Genitive	folliculī	folliculōrum
Dative	folliculō	folliculīs
Accusative	folliculum	folliculōs
Ablative	folliculō	folliculīs
Vocative	follicule	folliculī

Related terms

• folleātus
• folleō
• follicō

• folligena
• follis
• follītim

Descendants

• Catalan: fol·licle (borrowing)
• English: follicle (borrowing)
• French: follicule (borrowing)
• Galician: folello
• Italian: follicolo (borrowing)

• Portuguese: folículo (borrowing), folhelho, folilho
• Romanian: folicul (borrowing), folcel
• Russian: фолликул (follikul) (borrowing)
• Spanish: folículo (borrowing), hollejo

References

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