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English
Etymology
From Latin funiculus, diminutive of funis (“rope, cord”) + -culus.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /fjʊˈnɪk.jʊl.əs/
- (General American) IPA(key): /fjʊˈnɪk.jəl.əs/, /fəˈnɪk.jəl.əs/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪkjələs
- Rhymes: -ɪkjʊləs
Noun
funiculus (plural funiculi)
- (anatomy) Any of several cordlike structures, especially the umbilical cord, or a bundle of nerve fibres (white matter) in the spinal cord. The white matter of the spinal cord is made of (posterior, anterior and lateral) columns/funiculi. The grey columns are also called horns but not funiculi.
- (botany) A stalk that connects the seed (or ovule) with the placenta.
- Synonyms: funicle, umbilical cord
- The elaiosome emerges from the funiculus.
Derived terms
Translations
cordlike structure
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References
- “funiculus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
- “funiculus”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
Latin
Etymology
Diminutive from fūnis (“cord, rope”) + -culus.
Pronunciation
Noun
fūniculus m (genitive fūniculī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | fūniculus | fūniculī |
| genitive | fūniculī | fūniculōrum |
| dative | fūniculō | fūniculīs |
| accusative | fūniculum | fūniculōs |
| ablative | fūniculō | fūniculīs |
| vocative | fūnicule | fūniculī |
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Descendants
References
- “funiculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “funiculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "funiculus", 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)
- funiculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.