Latin

Alternative forms

• *flōriculus (Vulgar Latin)

Noun

flosculus m ‎(genitive flosculī); second declension (Diminutive of: flos)

1. a small flower
2. flowery ornament (in speech)

Inflection

Second declension.

Descendants

• Portuguese: flósculo
• Spanish: flósculo

References

• flosculus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• flosculus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• FLOSCULUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “flosculus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
  • fine, rhetorical phrases: flosculi, rhetorum pompa