pulvillus

English

Etymology

From Latin pulvillus (“a little cushion”).

Noun

pulvillus (plural pulvilli)

(zoology) One of the minute cushions on the feet of certain insects.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

Etymology

From pulvīnus (“pillow”) +‎ -lus (diminutive suffix).

Noun

pulvīllus m (genitive pulvīllī); second declension

diminutive of pulvīnus (“pillow”)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pulvīllus	pulvīllī
Genitive	pulvīllī	pulvīllōrum
Dative	pulvīllō	pulvīllīs
Accusative	pulvīllum	pulvīllōs
Ablative	pulvīllō	pulvīllīs
Vocative	pulvīlle	pulvīllī

References

“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