fenuculum

Latin

Alternative forms

• foeniculum
• faeniculum
• fēniculum

Etymology

From fēnum +‎ -uculum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /feːˈnu.ku.lum/, [feːˈnʊkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /feˈnu.ku.lum/, [feˈnuːkulum]

Noun

fēnuculum n (genitive fēnuculī); second declension (Late Latin)

1. fennel

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fēnuculum	fēnucula
Genitive	fēnuculī	fēnuculōrum
Dative	fēnuculō	fēnuculīs
Accusative	fēnuculum	fēnucula
Ablative	fēnuculō	fēnuculīs
Vocative	fēnuculum	fēnucula

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: finocchio
    • → Albanian: finok
    • → English: finocchio
    • → Greek: φινόκιο (finókio)
  • Sicilian: finocchiu
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: fenugu
• North-Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Ligurian: fenóggio
    • Lombard: fenògg, fineucc
    • Piedmontese: fnoj
  • Friulian: fenoli
  • Istriot: fanucio
  • Venetian: fenocio
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: fenôly, fenuely
  • Old French: fenoil
    • French: fenouil
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: fonoll, fenoll, fonell
  • Gascon: holh
  • Occitan: fenolh

    Limousin: fenuelh

• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: fenollo, fenullo, finollo, cenollo, cenullo, cinollo

    Ribagorçan: fenoll, cenoll

  • Asturian: fenoyu
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: feuncho, *fẽollo
    • Galician: fiúncho, fiollo, fionllo; fiuncho, funcho (reintegrationist)
    • Portuguese: funcho
  • Old Spanish: finojo
    • Spanish: hinojo
• → Proto-West Germanic: *fenukl (see there for further descendants)