Latin

Proper noun

Pēniculus m ‎(genitive Pēniculī); second declension

1. A male given name, character in the play Epidicus of Plautus.

Declension

Second declension.

Latin

Proper noun

pēniculus m ‎(genitive pēniculī); second declension

1. a brush [for removing dust] (for which ox-tails and horse-tails were used)
2. a sponge (clarification of this Latin definition is being sought)
3. a painter’s brush or pencil
4. (perhaps, in an ambiguous sense) ****, membrum virile
5. (Medieval Latin) a scourge (kind of whip)

Declension

Second declension.

Derived terms

• pēnicillum
• pēniculāmentum

References

• pēnĭcŭlus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• peniculus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• PENICULUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “1 pēnĭcŭlus”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette, page 1,137/1.
• peniculus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Jan Frederik Niermeyer, Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus : Lexique Latin Médiéval–Français/Anglais : A Medieval Latin–French/English Dictionary, fascicle I (1976), page 783/1, “peniculus”