filiolus

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Latin

Etymology

Diminutive from fīlius (son) +‎ -olus.

Pronunciation

Noun

fīliolus m (genitive fīliolī, feminine fīliola); second declension

  1. young son

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fīliolus fīliolī
Genitive fīliolī fīliolōrum
Dative fīliolō fīliolīs
Accusative fīliolum fīliolōs
Ablative fīliolō fīliolīs
Vocative fīliole fīliolī

Descendants


References

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