panniculus

From Latin panniculus, diminutive of pannus (“cloth”).

panniculus (countable and uncountable, plural panniculi)

1. (anatomy) A dense layer of fatty tissue growth, consisting of subcutaneous fat in the lower abdominal area.
2. A thin, sheet-like investment.

• pannus
• panniculus adiposus
• panniculus carnosus

• sipunculan

pannus (“cloth”) +‎ -culus

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [panˈnɪ.kʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [panˈniː.ku.lus]

panniculus m (genitive panniculī); second declension

1. a piece of cloth, a small rag
2. (Late Latin, medicine) membrane

Second-declension noun.

• “panniculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “panniculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• panniculus, in ΛΟΓΕΙΟΝ [Logeion] Dictionaries for Ancient Greek and Latin (in English, French, Spanish, German, Dutch and Chinese), University of Chicago, since 2011