utriculus

== English == === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /jʊˈtɹɪk.jəl.əs/ Rhymes: -ɪkjʊləs === Noun === utriculus (plural utriculi) (biology, anatomy, botany) Alternative form of utricle. == Latin == === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ʊˈtrɪ.kʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [uˈtriː.ku.lus] === Etymology 1 === From uter (“a bag or bottle made of an animal's hide”) +‎ -culus (diminutive suffix). ==== Noun ==== utriculus m (genitive utriculī); second declension diminutive of uter: a small skin or leathern bottle. ===== Inflection ===== Second-declension noun. ===== Descendants ===== → French: utricule → English: utricle, utriculus === Etymology 2 === From uterus (“the womb, matrix”) +‎ -culus (diminutive suffix). ==== Noun ==== utriculus m (genitive utriculī); second declension diminutive of uterus: The belly, abdomen. (of bees) A little womb or matrix. (botany) A bud or calycle of a flower, a hull or husk of grain. ===== Inflection ===== Second-declension noun. === References === “utriculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press