pulvillus

English

Etymology

Latin pulvillus (“a little cushion”).

Noun

pulvillus (plural pulvilli)

  1. (zoology) One of the minute cushions on the feet of certain insects.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “pulvillus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Etymology

From pulvīnus (“pillow”) +‎ -lus (diminutive suffix).

Noun

pulvīllus m (genitive pulvīllī); second declension

  1. Diminutive of pulvīnus (“pillow”)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative pulvīllus pulvīllī
Genitive pulvīllī pulvīllōrum
Dative pulvīllō pulvīllīs
Accusative pulvīllum pulvīllōs
Ablative pulvīllō pulvīllīs
Vocative pulvīlle pulvīllī

References
  • “pulvillus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “pulvillus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pulvillus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • pulvillus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “pulvillus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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