pulvisculus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin pulvisculus (“fine powder”). === Noun === pulvisculus (uncountable) (mycology) The powder contained in the spore-cases of certain fungi. == Latin == === Etymology === From pulvis (“dust”) + -culus (deminutive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [pʊɫˈwɪs.kʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [pulˈvis.ku.lus] === Noun === pulvisculus m (genitive pulvisculī); second declension fine dust, fine powder (in the phrase cum pulvisculō) wholly, completely ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. === References === “pulvisculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press