pediculus

Borrowed from Latin pediculus.

pediculus (plural pediculi)

1. A louse (of the family Pediculidae), especially Pediculus humanus.

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

From pēs, pedis (“foot”) +‎ -culus (“diminutive suffix”).

pediculus m (genitive pediculī); second declension

1. A little foot.

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2. (botany) A footstalk or pedicel of fruit or leaf.

Second-declension noun.

• pedunculus

• pedicellus
• pedicularis
• *pediciolus
  • ⇒ Late Latin: petiolus, peciolus (see there for further descendants)

From pēdis (“louse”) + -culus (“diminutive suffix”).

pēdiculus m (genitive pēdiculī); second declension

1. A louse
2. A sea louse

Second-declension noun.

• pēduculus, pēduclus (see there for further descendants)

• “pediculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "pediculus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “pediculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.