viculus

Latin

Etymology

A diminutive form of vīcus (“a village”, “a street”), formed as: vīcus +‎ -ulus (suffix forming diminutives).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

vīculus m (genitive vīculī); second declension

1. a small village or hamlet
2. (Medieval Latin) a minor lane, side-street, or alley

   Synonym: angiportus

   Near-synonym: platea

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vīculus	vīculī
genitive	vīculī	vīculōrum
dative	vīculō	vīculīs
accusative	vīculum	vīculōs
ablative	vīculō	vīculīs
vocative	vīcule	vīculī

Descendants

• Italian: vicchio, vicolo
• Neapolitan: viculo
• Piedmontese: vìcol

References

• “vīcŭlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “viculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "viculus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “vīcŭlus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,673/3.
• “uīculus” on page 2,058/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “viculus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1,097/2