mergulus

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈmer.ɡu.lus/, [ˈmɛr.ɡʊ.ɫʊs]

lūcerna cum mergulō (lamp with wick)

Diminutive from mergō (“immerse, dip”) +‎ -ulus.

mergulus m (genitive mergulī); second declension

1. wick of a lamp

Second declension.

• (wick): fīlum

• mergō

mergus cum mergulō (diver with chick)

Diminutive from mergus (“diver, loon”) +‎ -ulus, from mergō (“dive, plunge”).

mergulus m (genitive mergulī); second declension

1. small diver, loon (kind of waterfowl)

Second declension.

• mergō
• mergus

• Galician: mergullar, mergullo, mergullón, somorgullo
• Portuguese: mergulhar, mergulho

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