pisciculus

== Latin == === Etymology === From piscis (“fish”) + -culus (diminutive suffix). === Noun === pisciculus m (genitive pisciculī); second declension diminutive of piscis (“fish”) minnow tiddler In plural, an early name for Christians, in reference to the waters of baptism, and in allusion to the vesica piscis ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. === References === “pisciculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “pisciculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “pisciculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.