fasciculus

== English == === Etymology === Unadapted borrowing from Latin fasciculus. Doublet of fascicle. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /fəˈsɪkjʊləs/ Rhymes: -ɪkjʊləs === Noun === fasciculus (plural fasciculi) (anatomy) A small bundle of nerve, muscle or tendon fibers. One of the divisions of a book published in separate parts; a fascicle. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== fascicle fascism == Latin == === Etymology === From fascis (“bundle”) +‎ -culus (suffix forming diminutives). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fasˈkɪ.kʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [faʃˈʃiː.ku.lus] === Noun === fasciculus m (genitive fasciculī); second declension a small bundle or package (especially of letters or rolls) a bunch of flowers, nosegay (New Latin, computing) a computer file ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “fasciculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “fasciculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “fasciculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.