radicula

See also: Radicula

Latin

Etymology

From rādīc- (root) + -ula (diminutive ending).

Pronunciation

Noun

rādīcula f (genitive rādīculae); first declension

  1. little root, rootlet

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative rādīcula rādīculae
Genitive rādīculae rādīculārum
Dative rādīculae rādīculīs
Accusative rādīculam rādīculās
Ablative rādīculā rādīculīs
Vocative rādīcula rādīculae

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Balkan Romance:
    • Romanian: ridiche, rădiche
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: radicchio m (see there for further descendants)
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: arriga (Campidanese), raigla (Logudorese, obsolete)
  • North Italian:
    • Friulian: ardile, radigle
    • Ligurian: reigua
    • Lombard: ridicc, redicc
    • Venetian: raicio
  • Borrowings:
    • Byzantine Greek: ῥαδίκλα (rhadíkla)
    • English: radicle, radicule
    • French: radicule
    • ? Gascon: arredigle
    • Welsh: rhadicl

References

Further reading

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