pisciculus

Latin

Etymology

From piscis (“fish”) +‎ -culus (diminutive suffix).

Noun

pisciculus m (genitive pisciculī); second declension

  1. Diminutive of piscis (“fish”)
  2. minnow
  3. tiddler
  4. In plural, an early name for Christians, in reference to the waters of baptism, and in allusion to the vesica piscis[1]

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pisciculus pisciculī
Genitive pisciculī pisciculōrum
Dative pisciculō pisciculīs
Accusative pisciculum pisciculōs
Ablative pisciculō pisciculīs
Vocative piscicule pisciculī

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