flosculus

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From flōs (“flower”) +‎ -culus (diminutive suffix).

Noun

flōsculus m (genitive flōsculī); second declension

  1. Diminutive of flōs (“flower”)
  2. flowery ornament (in speech)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative flōsculus flōsculī
Genitive flōsculī flōsculōrum
Dative flōsculō flōsculīs
Accusative flōsculum flōsculōs
Ablative flōsculō flōsculīs
Vocative flōscule flōsculī

Descendants

References
  • “flosculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “flosculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • flosculus 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)
  • flosculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co.
    • fine, rhetorical phrases: flosculi, rhetorum pompa
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