different between famulus vs fumulus

English

Etymology

From Latin famulus (“servant”).

Noun

famulus (plural famuli)

1. A close attendant or assistant, especially of a magician or occult scholar.

Related terms

• familiar (noun)

Latin

Etymology

For Proto-Italic *famelos (“slave”) (with Oscan ???????????????????? (famel, “slave”)), ultimatley from *d?eh?- (“to do, put, place”). Probably as a backformation from the predecessor of familia (see it for details).

Alternative forms

• famul

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fa.mu.lus/, [?fäm????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fa.mu.lus/, [?f??mulus]

Noun

famulus m (genitive famul?, feminine famula); second declension

1. a servant, slave

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Adjective

famulus (feminine famula, neuter famulum); first/second-declension adjective

1. (figuratively) serving, servile

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Derived terms

• famulanter
• famult?s
• famulitium
• famulor

Related terms

• familia
• famili?ris
• famili?rit?s
• famili?ricus

Descendants

• ? Albanian: famull
• ? English: famulus
• ? German: Famulus
• ? Italian: famulo
• ? Portuguese: fâmulo
• ? Spanish: fámulo

References

• (noun) famulus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• (adjective) famulus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• famulus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• famulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

Blend of fume +? cumulus

Noun

fumulus (plural fumuli)

1. A very thin cloud resembling a veil, especially one formed of water droplets from a rising plume (from a cooling tower etc)