surculus

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin surculus. Doublet of surcle. === Noun === surculus (plural surculi) A shoot from a rootstock; a sucker. ==== Related terms ==== surcle surculose == Latin == === Etymology === From sūrus (“post, stake, branch”) + -culus (diminutive suffix). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “vowel length”) === Noun === surculus m (genitive surculī); second declension shoot, sprout, sprig, twig Synonyms: rāmulus, turiō a scion, graft, a sucker, slip, set of a plant for growth a small tree ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== → English: surcle, surculus → Portuguese: súrculo ⇒ Romanian: surcea, surcel → Spanish: súrculo === References === “surculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “surculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “surculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.