utriculus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin utriculus. Doublet of utricle.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /jʊˈtɹɪk.jəl.əs/
• Rhymes: -ɪkjʊləs

Noun

utriculus (plural utriculi)

1. (biology, anatomy, botany) Alternative form of utricle.

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ʊˈtrɪ.kʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [uˈtriː.ku.lus]

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Latin uter

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Proto-Italic *-kelos

Latin -culus

Latin utriculus

From uter (“a bag or bottle made of an animal's hide”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).

Noun

utriculus m (genitive utriculī); second declension

1. diminutive of uter: a small skin or leathern bottle.

Inflection

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	utriculus	utriculī
genitive	utriculī	utriculōrum
dative	utriculō	utriculīs
accusative	utriculum	utriculōs
ablative	utriculō	utriculīs
vocative	utricule	utriculī

Descendants

• → French: utricule
• → English: utricle, utriculus

Etymology 2

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *úd

Proto-Indo-European *-teros

Proto-Indo-European *úderos

Latin uterus

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Proto-Italic *-kelos

Latin -culus

Latin utriculus

From uterus (“the womb, matrix”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).

Noun

utriculus m (genitive utriculī); second declension

1. diminutive of uterus:
   1. The belly, abdomen. (of bees)
   2. A little womb or matrix.
   3. (botany) A bud or calycle of a flower, a hull or husk of grain.

Inflection

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	utriculus	utriculī
genitive	utriculī	utriculōrum
dative	utriculō	utriculīs
accusative	utriculum	utriculōs
ablative	utriculō	utriculīs
vocative	utricule	utriculī

References

• “utriculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press