pisciculus
Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From piscis (“fish”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).
Noun
[edit]pisciculus m (genitive pisciculī); second declension
- diminutive of piscis (“fish”)
- minnow
- tiddler
- In plural, an early name for Christians, in reference to the waters of baptism, and in allusion to the vesica piscis[1]
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pisciculus | pisciculī |
| genitive | pisciculī | pisciculōrum |
| dative | pisciculō | pisciculīs |
| accusative | pisciculum | pisciculōs |
| ablative | pisciculō | pisciculīs |
| vocative | piscicule | pisciculī |
References
[edit]- “pisciculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “pisciculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- pisciculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.