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Latin
Etymology 1
From *foviculum, from foveō (“to warm”) + -culum (“instrumental suffix”). Attested once in Plautus and once in a gloss citing the former.
Pronunciation
Noun
fōculum n (genitive fōculī); second declension
- (rare) device for warming
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Etymology 2
Noun
foculum
- accusative singular of foculus
References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “foveō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 237
- “fōculum” in volume 6, column 1, line 987 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present