folliculus

Latin

Etymology

From follis (“purse, sack”).

Pronunciation
  • (Classical) IPA(key): /folˈli.ku.lus/, [fɔlˈlʲɪkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
  • (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /folˈli.ku.lus/, [folˈliːkulus]

Noun

folliculus m (genitive folliculī); second declension

  1. a small bellows
  2. a small sack
  3. an inflated ball (for sport)
  4. a bud
  5. husk, pod, shell, skin
  6. (Late Latin, anatomy) sac
  7. (Late Latin, anatomy) bladder (urinary)
  8. (Late Latin, anatomy) scrotum

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative folliculus folliculī
Genitive folliculī folliculōrum
Dative folliculō folliculīs
Accusative folliculum folliculōs
Ablative folliculō folliculīs
Vocative follicule folliculī

Descendants
  • Catalan: fol·licle (borrowing)
  • English: follicle (borrowing)
  • French: follicule (borrowing)
  • Galician: folello
  • Italian: follicolo (borrowing)
  • Portuguese: folículo (borrowing), folhelho, folilho
  • Romanian: folicul (borrowing), folcel
  • Russian: фолликул (follikul) (borrowing)
  • Spanish: folículo (borrowing), hollejo

References
  • “folliculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “folliculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • folliculus 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)
  • folliculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
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