floscule
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin flōsculus, diminutive of flōs (“flower, blossom”). Compare French floscule.
Noun edit
floscule (plural floscules)
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “floscule”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Latin edit
Noun edit
flōscule
Adverb edit
flōsculē (derived from flōsculus)
- bloomingly, in a blooming manner
References edit
- “floscule”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- floscule 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)
- floscule in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.