floccus
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Etymology edit
Noun edit
floccus (plural flocci)
- (meteorology) A cloud species which consists of rounded tufts of cloud, often formed by dissipation from larger cloud species. Associated with cirrus, cirrocumulus, altocumulus, and stratocumulus genera.[1]
- A flock or tuft of wool or wool-like hairs; the downy plumage of unfledged birds.
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Latin edit
Etymology edit
Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlok-, related to Old High German blaha (“linen, canvas”), Old Swedish blan, bla, both from Proto-Germanic *blahǭ, *blagwǭ (“cloth, linen”), and Old Norse blæja, which is from Proto-Germanic *blahjǭ (“linen, cloth”).[1]
Noun edit
floccus m (genitive floccī); second declension
- tuft, wisp of wool
- (figuratively) trifle (thing of little importance)
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | floccus | floccī |
Genitive | floccī | floccōrum |
Dative | floccō | floccīs |
Accusative | floccum | floccōs |
Ablative | floccō | floccīs |
Vocative | flocce | floccī |
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Descendants edit
- Balkan Romance:
- Romanian: floc
- Dalmatian:
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Vulgar Latin: *floccāre (see there for further descendants)
- Borrowings:
References edit
- “floccus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “floccus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- floccus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Szemerenyi, Scripta minora: selected essays in Indo-European, Greek, and Latin, Volume 2, p. 714