fulica

== Latin == === Alternative forms === fulix === Etymology === According to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”). Compare Old High German belihha ("coot"; > modern German Belche), Ancient Greek φαλός (phalós, “white”), Sanskrit भाल (bhāla, “splendour”), Old Armenian բալ (bal, “fog”) and Old English bǣl (English bale). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfʊ.lɪ.ka] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfuː.li.ka] === Noun === fulica f (genitive fulicae); first declension a coot waterfowl ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== (Note: see also fulix.) === References === Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “fŭlĭca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3: D–F, page 843 === Further reading === “fulica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “fulica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “fulica”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.