aqualiculus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂ékʷeh₂

Proto-Italic *akʷā

Latin aqua

Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-der.?

Proto-Italic *-ālis

Latin -ālis

Latin aquālis

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Proto-Italic *-kelos

Latin -culus

Latin aquāliculus

From aquālis (“washbasin”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [a.kʷaːˈlɪ.kʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [a.kʷaˈliː.ku.lus]

Noun

aquāliculus m (genitive aquāliculī); second declension

1. (literally) diminutive of aquālis: small water vessel
2. (anatomy) stomach, maw
   • c. 65 CE, Seneca Minor, Epistulae morales ad Lucilium 90
3. belly, paunch
   • c. 62 CE, Persius, Saturae 1.57

Inflection

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	aquāliculus	aquāliculī
genitive	aquāliculī	aquāliculōrum
dative	aquāliculō	aquāliculīs
accusative	aquāliculum	aquāliculōs
ablative	aquāliculō	aquāliculīs
vocative	aquālicule	aquāliculī

References

• “aqualiculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press