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Floccus
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Floc′cus
,Noun.
pl.
Flocci
(#)
. [L., a flock of wool.]
1.
(Zool.)
(a)
The tuft of hair terminating the tail of mammals.
(b)
A tuft of feathers on the head of young birds.
2.
(Bot.)
A woolly filament sometimes occuring with the sporules of certain fungi.
Definition 2024
floccus
floccus
English
Noun
floccus (plural flocci)
- (meteorology) a cloud species which consists of rounded tufts of cloud, often formed by dissipation from larger cloud species. Associated with cirrus, cirrocumulus, altocumulus, and stratocumulus genera.
Source AMS Glossary of Meteorology
Latin
Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlok-, related to Old High German blaha, Old Swedish blan, bla, both from Proto-Germanic *blahwo (“tuft”), and Old Norse blæja, which is from Proto-Germanic *blahjon (“flock of wool”).[1]
Noun
floccus m (genitive floccī); second declension
Inflection
Second declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | floccus | floccī |
| genitive | floccī | floccōrum |
| dative | floccō | floccīs |
| accusative | floccum | floccōs |
| ablative | floccō | floccīs |
| vocative | flocce | floccī |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- floccus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- floccus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “floccus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- ↑ Szemerenyi, Scripta minora: selected essays in Indo-European, Greek, and Latin, Volume 2, p. 714