filictum

Latin

Etymology

From filix (“fern”) +‎ -tum.

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fɪˈlɪk.tũː]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fiˈlik.t̪um]

Noun

filictum n (genitive filictī); second declension

fernbrake, stand of ferns.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	filictum	filicta
genitive	filictī	filictōrum
dative	filictō	filictīs
accusative	filictum	filicta
ablative	filictō	filictīs
vocative	filictum	filicta

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: filetta
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: felet
Ibero-Romance:
- Asturian: felechu, feleichu, felenchu, feleitu, felichu, filichu, fileitu, flichu, fleitu, folechu, folichu, foletu, ḥelechu
- Galician: fieito, faínto, fento, fiento, fointo
- Mirandese: faleito
  - → Portuguese: falento (Trasmontano)
- Portuguese: feto, fento, feito, fieito, féntão
- Spanish: helecho

References

“filictum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
filictum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.