peduculus

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

A variant of pēdiculus, itself a diminutive of pēdis.

Noun

pēduculus m (genitive pēduculī); second declension

  1. Alternative form of pēdiculus (louse).

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative pēduculus pēduculī
genitive pēduculī pēduculōrum
dative pēduculō pēduculīs
accusative pēduculum pēduculōs
ablative pēduculō pēduculīs
vocative pēducule pēduculī

Descendants

Further reading

  • peduculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • peduculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.