folliculus

From follis (“purse, sack”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /folˈli.ku.lus/, [fɔlˈlɪ.kʊ.ɫʊs]

folliculus m (genitive folliculī); second declension

1. a small bellows
2. a small sack
3. an inflated ball (for sport)
4. a bud
5. husk, pod, shell, skin
6. (Late Latin, anatomy) sac
7. (Late Latin, anatomy) bladder (urinary)
8. (Late Latin, anatomy) scrotum

Second declension.

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