folliculus

== English == === Noun === folliculus (plural folliculi) Obsolete form of follicle. == Latin == === Etymology === From follis (“purse, sack”) +‎ -culus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [fɔlˈlɪ.kʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [folˈliː.ku.lus] === Noun === folliculus m (genitive folliculī); second declension a small bellows a small sack an inflated ball (for sport) a bud husk, pod, shell, skin (Late Latin, anatomy) sac (Late Latin, anatomy) bladder (urinary) (Late Latin, anatomy) scrotum ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === “folliculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “folliculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "folliculus", 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) “folliculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.