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Latin
Etymology
From fidēs (“chord”) + -culae (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
fidiculae f pl (genitive fidiculārum); first declension
- a small stringed instrument, a small lute or cithern
Declension
First-declension noun, plural only.
References
- “fidiculae”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “fidiculae”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- fidiculae in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.