radiolus

English

Noun

radiolus (plural radioli)

1. (ornithology) The barbule of a feather

Anagrams

• Dilauros

Latin

Etymology

From radius (“ray, beam”) +‎ -olus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /raˈdi.o.lus/, [räˈd̪iɔɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /raˈdi.o.lus/, [räˈd̪iːolus]

Noun

radiolus m (genitive radiolī); second declension

1. small, feeble sunbeam
2. kind of long olive
3. kind of plant resembling a fern

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	radiolus	radiolī
genitive	radiolī	radiolōrum
dative	radiolō	radiolīs
accusative	radiolum	radiolōs
ablative	radiolō	radiolīs
vocative	radiole	radiolī

Descendants

• → English: radiolus

References

• “radiolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• radiolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.