aculeus

== English == === Etymology === From Latin aculeus. === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈkjuː.lɪ.əs/ (General American) IPA(key): /əˈkju.li.əs/ === Noun === aculeus (plural aculei) (botany) A sharp spike or other projection growing on a plant, as in some brambles and roses. [from 18th c.] A sting. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== == Latin == === Etymology === Derived from ac(us) (“needle”) +‎ -uleus (diminutive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aˈkʊ.ɫe.ʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aˈkuː.le.us] === Noun === aculeus m (genitive aculeī); second declension sting, stinger (of an insect) sting (metaphorical) spine, thorn ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== aculeātus aculeolus acūleōnis ==== Descendants ==== → English: aculeus (learned) ⇒ Old French: aiglant ⇒ French: églantier → Old Frisian: etsel, eetsel, eetzil, eitzel, eetzel, ethzel, ezel, ezil, itsil West Frisian: isel, izel → Italian: aculeo → Portuguese: acúleo → Romanian: aculeu → Spanish: acúleo === References === “ăcūlĕus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “aculeus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "aculeus", 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) “ăcŭlĕus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 26/3. “aculeus” on page 31/2 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)