vericulum

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *gʷéru

Proto-Italic *gʷeru

Latin verū

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Proto-Italic *-kelos

Latin -culum

Latin vericulum

From verū (“dart”) + -culum (diminutive suffix).

Noun

vericulum n (genitive vericulī); second declension

1. a small pointed rod

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	vericulum	vericula
genitive	vericulī	vericulōrum
dative	vericulō	vericulīs
accusative	vericulum	vericula
ablative	vericulō	vericulīs
vocative	vericulum	vericula

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: verricchio (Lucca), >? verricolo
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: vereil
• ⇒ Late Latin: veruculum
  • Italian: verchio (Tuscan), → verucolo
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *verruculum (see there for further descendants)

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “vĕrĭcŭlum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 14: U–Z, page 285

Further reading

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