fasciculus

Unadapted borrowing from Latin fasciculus. Doublet of fascicle.

• IPA^(key): /fəˈsɪkjʊləs/
• Rhymes: -ɪkjʊləs

fasciculus (plural fasciculi)

1. (anatomy) A small bundle of nerve, muscle or tendon fibers.
2. One of the divisions of a book published in separate parts; a fascicle.

• fascicle
• fascism

From fascis (“bundle”) + -culus (suffix forming diminutives).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fasˈkɪ.kʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [faʃˈʃiː.ku.lus]

fasciculus m (genitive fasciculī); second declension

1. a small bundle or package (especially of letters or rolls)

   Fasciculus epistolarum aqua madidus redditus erat

   The packet of letters was soaked in water

   Ne forte sub ala fasciculum portes librorum ut rusticus agnum

   Try not to carry the packet of books under your arm like a farmer carries a lamb

2. a bunch of flowers, nosegay
3. (New Latin, computing) a computer file

Second-declension noun.

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