folliculus

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Latin

Etymology

From follis (“purse, sack”) +‎ -culus.

Pronunciation

Noun

folliculus m (genitive folliculī); second declension

  1. a small bellows
  2. a small sack
  3. an inflated ball (for sport)
  4. a bud
  5. husk, pod, shell, skin
  6. (Late Latin, anatomy) sac
  7. (Late Latin, anatomy) bladder (urinary)
  8. (Late Latin, anatomy) scrotum

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative folliculus folliculī
genitive folliculī folliculōrum
dative folliculō folliculīs
accusative folliculum folliculōs
ablative folliculō folliculīs
vocative follicule folliculī

Descendants

References

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