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fasciculus

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English

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Etymology

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Unadapted borrowing from Latin fasciculus. Doublet of fascicle.

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Noun

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fasciculus (plural fasciculi)

  1. (anatomy) A small bundle of nerve, muscle or tendon fibers.
  2. One of the divisions of a book published in separate parts; a fascicle.

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Latin

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Etymology

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Etymology tree
Latin fascis
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Proto-Italic *-kelos
Latin -culus
Latin fasciculus

    From fascis (“bundle”) + -culus (suffix forming diminutives).

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    fasciculus m (genitive fasciculī); second declension

    1. a small bundle or package (especially of letters or rolls)
      Fasciculus epistolarum aqua madidus redditus erat
      The packet of letters was soaked in water
      Ne forte sub ala fasciculum portes librorum ut rusticus agnum
      Try not to carry the packet of books under your arm like a farmer carries a lamb
    2. a bunch of flowers, nosegay
    3. (New Latin, computing) a computer file

    Declension

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    Second-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative fasciculus fasciculī
    genitive fasciculī fasciculōrum
    dative fasciculō fasciculīs
    accusative fasciculum fasciculōs
    ablative fasciculō fasciculīs
    vocative fascicule fasciculī

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    References

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