famulo

fama (“famous”) +‎ -ulo (“person”)

• IPA^(key): /faˈmulo/
• Hyphenation: fa‧mu‧lo
• Rhymes: -ulo

famulo (accusative singular famulon, plural famuloj, accusative plural famulojn)

1. famous person, celebrity

Borrowed from Latin famulus, from Proto-Italic *famelos, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰh₁-m-eló-, derived from the root *dʰeh₁- (“to put, place”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfa.mu.lo/, [ˈfäːmul̺o]
• Hyphenation: fà‧mu‧lo

famulo m (plural famuli)

1. (literary, chiefly Ancient Rome) servant

• famiglio, servo

• famiglia

famulō

1. dative singular of famulus
2. ablative singular of famulus

• famulo in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• famulo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette