pulvillus
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin pulvillus (“a little cushion”).
Noun
editpulvillus (plural pulvilli)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pulvillus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom pulvīnus (“pillow”) + -lus (diminutive suffix).
Noun
editpulvīllus m (genitive pulvīllī); second declension
- diminutive of pulvīnus (“pillow”)
Declension
editSecond-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | pulvīllus | pulvīllī |
Genitive | pulvīllī | pulvīllōrum |
Dative | pulvīllō | pulvīllīs |
Accusative | pulvīllum | pulvīllōs |
Ablative | pulvīllō | pulvīllīs |
Vocative | pulvīlle | pulvīllī |
References
edit- “pulvillus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pulvillus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pulvillus 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)
- pulvillus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “pulvillus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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