unguiculus

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin unguiculus. === Noun === unguiculus (plural unguiculi) A diminutive claw or similar appendage at the end of an insect's foot. == Latin == === Etymology === From unguis + -culus (forming diminutives). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ʊŋˈɡʷɪ.kʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [uŋˈɡʷiː.ku.lus] === Noun === unguiculus m (genitive unguiculī); second declension a fingernail ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== unguiculātus === Further reading === “unguĭcŭlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “unguiculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers “unguĭcŭlus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.