Rediculus

Latin

Etymology

Either from redeō (“return”) +‎ -ulus (“diminutive suffix”) or an alteration of rīdiculus, depending on how one chooses to analyse the god.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /reˈdi.ku.lus/, [rɛˈd̪ɪkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /reˈdi.ku.lus/, [reˈd̪iːkulus]

Proper noun

Rediculus m sg (genitive Rediculī); second declension

1. (Roman mythology) a minor god of ambiguous patronage: either a tutelary god of returning or one of laughter.
   • 1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 282, line 23:

     Rediculī fānum extrā portam Capēnam Cornificius . . . . . . . statuit proptereā appellātum esse, quod accēdēns ad urbem Hannibal ex eō locō redierit, quibusdam vīsīs perterritus.

     Cornificius . . . . . . . established that the altar of Rediculus outside the Porta Capena is so called, because Hannibal nearing the City returned from that place, scared away by certain visions.

Declension

Second-declension noun, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	Rediculus
Genitive	Rediculī
Dative	Rediculō
Accusative	Rediculum
Ablative	Rediculō
Vocative	Redicule

References

• Rediculus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “Rediculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press