floccus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin floccus. === Noun === floccus (plural flocci) (meteorology) A cloud species which consists of rounded tufts of cloud, often formed by dissipation from larger cloud species. Associated with cirrus, cirrocumulus, altocumulus, and stratocumulus genera. A flock or tuft of wool or wool-like hairs The downy plumage of unfledged birds. === References === == Latin == === Etymology === Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlok-, related to Old High German blaha (“linen, canvas”), Old Swedish blan, bla, both from Proto-Germanic *blahǭ, *blagwǭ (“cloth, linen”), and Old Norse blæja, which is from Proto-Germanic *blahjǭ (“linen, cloth”). Alternatively, from Proto-West Germanic *flokkō (“down, wool, flock”), from Proto-Germanic *flukkô (“down, piece of wool, flake, fluff”), from Proto-Indo-European *plewk- (“hair, fibres, tuft”). === Noun === floccus m (genitive floccī); second declension tuft, wisp of wool (figuratively) trifle (thing of little importance) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== floccī nōn faciō floccōsus flocculus ==== Descendants ==== === References === “floccus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “floccus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “floccus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.