pediculus

pediculus (plural pediculi)

1. A louse (of the family Pediculidae), especially Pediculus humanus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /peˈdi.ku.lus/, [pɛˈd̪ɪkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /peˈdi.ku.lus/, [peˈd̪iːkulus]

From pēs, pedis (“foot”) +‎ -culus (“diminutive suffix”).

pediculus m (genitive pediculī); second declension

1. A little foot.

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2. (botany) A footstalk or pedicel of fruit or leaf.

Second-declension noun.

• pēduculus, pēduclus

• pedicellus
• *pediciolus
  • → Late Latin: petiolus, peciolus

From pēdis (“louse”) +‎ -culus (“diminutive suffix”).

pēdiculus m (genitive pēdiculī); second declension

1. A louse
2. A sea louse

Second-declension noun.

• Latin: pēduculus (see there for further descendants)
• →⇒ Italian: pediculosi
• → Spanish: pedículo
• → Translingual: Pediculus

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