different between cuniculus vs funiculus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin cun?culus.

Noun

cuniculus (plural cuniculi)

1. a burrow or low underground passage
2. a burrow in the skin made by a mite

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (kóniklos), probably of Iberian or Celtiberian origin; compare Basque untxi (“rabbit”), Mozarabic conchair (“greyhound”). The original meaning “burrow” adapted to the rabbit or vice versa.

Attested beginning from Cicero and Varro.

Alternative forms

• cuniculum, cuniclus, cunicolus, coniculus, conicolus

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ku?ni?.ku.lus/, [k??ni?k????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ku?ni.ku.lus/, [ku?ni?kulus]

Noun

cun?culus m (genitive cun?cul?, feminine cun?cula); second declension

1. a rabbit
2. a rabbit burrow
   1. a mine, underground tunnel or gallery

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Related terms

• cun?cul?rium

Descendants

• Latin: cun?clus (see there for further descendants)
• ? English: cuniculus
• ? Italian: cunicolo
• ? Portuguese: cunículo

See also

• cuneus
• cunnus

References

• “cun?culus” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present

Further reading

• cuniculus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• cuniculus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cuniculus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• cuniculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
• cuniculus in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• cuniculus in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Etymology

From Latin funiculus, diminutive of funis (“rope, cord”) +? -culus.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /fj??n?k.j?l.?s/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /fj??n?k.j?l.?s/, /f??n?k.j?l.?s/
• Rhymes: -?kj?l?s

Noun

funiculus (plural funiculi)

1. (anatomy) Any of several cordlike structures, especially the umbilical cord, or a bundle of nerve fibres in the spinal cord
2. (botany) A stalk that connects the seed (or ovule) with the placenta

Translations

References

• “funiculus”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• “funiculus”, in Merriam–Webster Online Dictionary, (Please provide a date or year).

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive from f?nis (“cord, rope”) +? -culus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fu??ni.ku.lus/, [fu??n?k????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fu?ni.ku.lus/, [fu?ni?kulus]

Noun

f?niculus m (genitive f?nicul?); second declension

1. A slender rope, cord.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Synonyms

• (cord): f?nicula, l?num, vinculum

Related terms

Descendants

References

• funiculus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• funiculus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• funiculus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• funiculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette