flosculus

Latin

Alternative forms

• *flōriculus (Vulgar Latin)

Etymology

From flōs (“flower”) +‎ -culus (diminutive suffix).

Noun

flōsculus m (genitive flōsculī); second declension

1. Diminutive of flōs (“flower”)
2. flowery ornament (in speech)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	flōsculus	flōsculī
Genitive	flōsculī	flōsculōrum
Dative	flōsculō	flōsculīs
Accusative	flōsculum	flōsculōs
Ablative	flōsculō	flōsculīs
Vocative	flōscule	flōsculī

Descendants

• Catalan: flòscul
• Danish: floskel
• English: floscule
• Galician: flósculo
• German: Floskel
• Italian: flosculo
• Norwegian Bokmål: floskel
• Norwegian Nynorsk: floskel
• Portuguese: flósculo
• Spanish: flósculo
• Swedish: floskel

References

• “flosculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “flosculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• flosculus 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)
• flosculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • fine, rhetorical phrases: flosculi, rhetorum pompa