foculum

Latin

Etymology 1

From *foviculum, from foveō (“to warm”) +‎ -culum (“instrumental suffix”). Attested once in Plautus and once in a gloss citing the former.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfoː.kʊ.ɫũː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfɔː.ku.lum]

Noun

fōculum n (genitive fōculī); second declension

1. (rare) device for warming

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	fōculum	fōcula
genitive	fōculī	fōculōrum
dative	fōculō	fōculīs
accusative	fōculum	fōcula
ablative	fōculō	fōculīs
vocative	fōculum	fōcula

Etymology 2

Noun

foculum

1. accusative singular of foculus

References

• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “foveō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 237
• “fōculum” in volume 6, column 1, line 987 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present