funicular

From Latin fūniculus (“cord”), diminutive from fūnis (“cord”) + -culus.

• Rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)

funicular (comparative more funicular, superlative most funicular)

1. Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable
2. (medicine) Of or pertaining to the umbilical cord.
3. (botany) Having a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed.
4. (geometry) catenary

funicular (plural funiculars)

1. A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single track, with the cars linked by a moving cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, i.e. the two cars serve as counterweights for each other.
   • 2021 January 13, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Spectacular funiculars”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 50:

     England's funiculars mostly hug the coast, and this is no coincidence. The development of the Victorian and Edwardian seaside resort played a central role in the uptake of funicular railways across England.

   Synonyms: funicular railway, cliff railway

funicular m (plural funiculars)

1. cable car, funicular

• “funicular” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “funicular”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2023
• “funicular” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “funicular” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

funicular m or f (plural funiculares)

1. funicular (powered by a rope or cable)

funicular m (plural funiculares)

1. funicular (rail transit system which ascends an incline)

From Latin fūniculus (“cord”), diminutive of fūnis (“cord”).

• IPA^(key): [fu.ni.kuˈlaʳ]

funicular n

1. rope railway

• IPA^(key): /funikuˈlaɾ/ [fu.ni.kuˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: fu‧ni‧cu‧lar

funicular m (plural funiculares)

1. funicular, cable car

• “funicular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014