vallicula

vallicula

English

Noun

vallicula (plural valliculae)

  1. Alternative form of vallecula.

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *welH-?
Latin vallis
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Proto-Italic *-kelos
Latin -cula
Latin vallicula

    From vallis (“a valley, vale”) + -cula (diminutive suffix).

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    vallicula f (genitive valliculae); first declension

    1. diminutive of vallis: a glen, dell (little valley)

    Inflection

    First-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative vallicula valliculae
    genitive valliculae valliculārum
    dative valliculae valliculīs
    accusative valliculam valliculās
    ablative valliculā valliculīs
    vocative vallicula valliculae

    Descendants

    • Galician: Valella (place name)
    • Romanian: vâlcea

    References

    • “vallicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “vallicula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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