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Latin
Etymology
A diminutive form of vīcus (“a village”, “a street”), formed as: vīcus + -ulus (suffix forming diminutives).
Pronunciation
Noun
vīculus m (genitive vīculī); second declension
- a small village or hamlet
- (Medieval Latin) a minor lane, side-street, or alley
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Synonyms
- (minor lane, side-street, alley): angiportus (Classical)
Descendants
References
- “vīcŭlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “viculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- viculus 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)
- vīcŭlus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,673/3.
- “uīculus” on page 2,058/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “viculus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1,097/2