flocculus

Borrowed from Latin flocculus, from floccus.

flocculus (plural flocculi)

1. A small fluffy tuft.
2. (anatomy) Either of two small lobes on the posterior border of the cerebellum.
3. (astronomy) A marking on the surface of the sun associated with a solar prominence.

• paraflocculus

From floccus (“tuft”) + -ulus.

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

flocculus m (genitive flocculī); second declension

1. diminutive of floccus: a small tuft

Second-declension noun.

• floccōsus
• floccus

• “flocculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*floccellus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3: D–F, page 624