fulica

See also: Fulica

Latin

Alternative forms

fulix

Etymology

According to Pokorny, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- (“to shine”). Compare Old High German belihha ("coot"; > modern German Belche), Ancient Greek φαλός (phalós, “white”), Sanskrit भाल (bhāla, “splendour”), Old Armenian բալ (bal, “fog”) and Old English bǣl (English bale).[1]

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfu.li.ka/, [ˈfʊlʲɪkä]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfu.li.ka/, [ˈfuːlikä]

Noun

fulica f (genitive fulicae); first declension

a coot
waterfowl

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	fulica	fulicae
Genitive	fulicae	fulicārum
Dative	fulicae	fulicīs
Accusative	fulicam	fulicās
Ablative	fulicā	fulicīs
Vocative	fulica	fulicae

Descendants

See also fulix.

Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: fôlga
- Italian: folaga
- Neapolitan: folleca
- Sicilian: fùrrica
Occitano-Romance:
- Catalan: foliga (Roussillon)
- Occitan: folca
  - → French: foulque
Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: puliga (Campidanese)
Borrowings:
- → Middle French: fullicque
- → Spanish: fúlica
- → Translingual: Fulica

References

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “fŭlĭca”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 3: D–F, page 843

Pokorny, Julius (1959) “bhel-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 118-119

Further reading

“fulica”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“fulica”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
fulica in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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