funiculus

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

funiculus (plural funiculi)

1. (anatomy) Any of several cordlike structures, especially the umbilical cord, or a bundle of nerve fibres in the spinal cord
2. (botany) A stalk that connects the seed (or ovule) with the placenta

Diminutive from fūnis (“cord, rope”) +‎ -culus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fuːˈni.ku.lus/, [fuːˈnɪ.kʊ.ɫʊs]

fūniculus m (genitive fūniculī); second declension

1. A slender rope, cord.

Second-declension noun.

• (cord): fūnicula, līnum, vinculum

• funiculus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• funiculus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• funiculus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• funiculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette