different between fasciculus vs fascicule

English

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Latin fasciculus. Doublet of fascicle.

Noun

fasciculus (plural fasciculi)

1. (anatomy) A small bundle of nerve, muscle or tendon fibers.
2. One of the divisions of a book published in separate parts; a fascicle.

Related terms

• fascicle
• fascism

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of fascis (“bundle”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fas?ki.ku.lus/, [fäs??k?k????s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fa??i.ku.lus/, [f???i?kulus]

Noun

fasciculus m (genitive fascicul?); second declension

1. A small bundle or package.
2. A bunch of flowers, nosegay.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• English: fascicle, fasciculus
• French: fascicule
• German: Faszikel
• Italian: fascicolo
• Portuguese: fascículo

References

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

English

Etymology

From French fascicule, from Latin fasciculus.

Noun

fascicule (plural fascicules)

1. An installment of a printed work, a fascicle.
   • 1974, Lawrence Durrell, Monsieur, Faber & Faber 1992, p. 104:

     In Piers' hotel room at Avignon there was a ton of these fascicules, some of which I could even remember having heard him deliver in those far-off days.

2. (obsolete) A bundle of nerve fibers; a fasciculus.
   • 1893, Charles Zimmerman, "The Relation of the Ocular Nerves to the Brain", The Medical and Surgical Reporter, page 812, Nov. 25, 1893.

     Perlia advocates, however, the assumption that the posterior longitudinal fascicule connecting the oculo-motor center with the medulla oblongata, […]

   • 1895, Charles E. Sajous, "Normal Histology and Microscopical Technology", Annual of the Universal Medical Sciences, page 97

     In the large tactile hairs, or sinus hairs, — i.e., those provided with a blood-sinus, — several nerve-fibres form a fascicule and enter the follicle near the base; […]

3. (botany) Alternative form of fascicle

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin fasciculus.

Noun

fascicule m (plural fascicules)

1. installment
2. fascicle
3. bundle

Latin

Noun

fascicule

1. vocative singular of fasciculus