pulvisculus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pulvisculus (“fine powder”).

Noun

pulvisculus (uncountable)

1. (mycology) The powder contained in the spore-cases of certain fungi.

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *pel-der.

Latin pulvis

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Proto-Italic *-kelos

Latin -culus

Latin pulvisculus

From pulvis (“dust”) + -culus (deminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [pʊɫˈwɪs.kʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [pulˈvis.ku.lus]

Noun

pulvisculus m (genitive pulvisculī); second declension

1. fine dust, fine powder
2. (in the phrase cum pulvisculō) wholly, completely

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	pulvisculus	pulvisculī
genitive	pulvisculī	pulvisculōrum
dative	pulvisculō	pulvisculīs
accusative	pulvisculum	pulvisculōs
ablative	pulvisculō	pulvisculīs
vocative	pulviscule	pulvisculī

References

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