English edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Latin tutulus.

Noun edit

tutulus (plural tutuli)

  1. A conical Etruscan headdress for women.

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *tewh₂- (to swell). Cognate with Latin tūber, tumeō, obturō and turgeō.

Noun edit

tutulus m (genitive tutulī); second declension

  1. A high headdress, formed by plaiting the hair in a cone over the forehead, worn expecially by the Flamen and his wife

Declension edit

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative tutulus tutulī
Genitive tutulī tutulōrum
Dative tutulō tutulīs
Accusative tutulum tutulōs
Ablative tutulō tutulīs
Vocative tutule tutulī

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • English: tutulus

References edit

  • tutulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • tutulus 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)
  • tutulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • tutulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • tutulus in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016