surculus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin surculus. Doublet of surcle.

Noun

surculus (plural surculi)

1. A shoot from a rootstock; a sucker.

Related terms

• surcle
• surculose

Latin

Etymology

From sūrus (“post, stake, branch”) + -culus (diminutive suffix). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “vowel length”)

Noun

surculus m (genitive surculī); second declension

1. shoot, sprout, sprig, twig

   Synonyms: rāmulus, turiō

2. a scion, graft, a sucker, slip, set of a plant for growth
3. a small tree

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	surculus	surculī
genitive	surculī	surculōrum
dative	surculō	surculīs
accusative	surculum	surculōs
ablative	surculō	surculīs
vocative	surcule	surculī

Derived terms

• → English: surcle, surculus
• → Portuguese: súrculo
• ⇒ Romanian: surcea, surcel
• → Spanish: súrculo

References

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