Term
funiculus
The first syllable of funiculus is not fun. It is fyoo, the long u English gives to a u in an open syllable, and the two u's after it are barely audible.
Latin funiculus is the diminutive of funis, a rope, so the word means a little cord, which is what the thing is. The same funis is behind funicular, the cable railway. The stress falls on NIC and the vowels around it thin out.
- Say
- fyoo-NIK-yuu-luss
- Letters
- F-U-N-I-C-U-L-U-S
- Root
- Latin funiculus, diminutive of funis, rope
- Meaning
- The funiculus is the stalk that joins an ovule, and later the seed, to the placenta inside the ovary. When the seed comes away it leaves a scar called the hilum, the mark on the flat side of a broad bean.
8 spellings people arrive at by ear
- funicelusan unstressed vowel
- faniculusan unstressed vowel
- funikulastwo changes at once
- funikulusa hard c
- funuculusan unstressed vowel
- fyooniculusthe long u
- funicullusa doubled consonant
- funniculusa doubled consonant