vallicula

English

Noun

vallicula (plural valliculae)

1. Alternative form of vallecula.

Latin

Alternative forms

• vallēcula (post-classical)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *welH-?

Latin vallis

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Proto-Italic *-kelos

Latin -cula

Latin vallicula

From vallis (“a valley, vale”) + -cula (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [walˈlɪ.kʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [valˈliː.ku.la]

Noun

vallicula f (genitive valliculae); first declension

1. diminutive of vallis: a glen, dell (little valley)

Inflection

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vallicula	valliculae
genitive	valliculae	valliculārum
dative	valliculae	valliculīs
accusative	valliculam	valliculās
ablative	valliculā	valliculīs
vocative	vallicula	valliculae

Descendants

• Galician: Valella (place name)
• Romanian: vâlcea

References

• “vallicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vallicula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.