funicular

From Latin fūniculus (“cord”), diminutive from fūnis (“cord”) + -culus.

funicular (comparative more funicular, superlative most funicular)

1. Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable
2. (medicine) Of or pertaining to the umbilical cord.
3. (botany) Having a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed.

funicular (plural funiculars)

1. A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single track, with the cars linked by a cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, i.e. the two cars serve as counterweights for each other.

funicular m or f (plural funiculares, comparable)

1. funicular (powered by a rope or cable)

funicular m (plural funiculares)

1. funicular (rail transit system which ascends an incline)

From Latin fūniculus (“cord”), diminutive of fūnis (“cord”).

• IPA^(key): [fu.ni.kuˈlaʳ]

funicular n

1. rope railway

funicular m (plural funiculares)

1. funicular, cable car