proper noun · masculinesecond declension
Rediculus
Rediculus m sg (genitive Rediculī)
Classical[rɛˈdɪ.kʊ.ɫʊs]Ecclesiastical[reˈdiː.ku.lus]
Meaning
- Romanmasculinesingulara minor god of ambiguous patronage: either a tutelary god of returning or one of laughter.
Rediculī fānum extrā portam Capēnam Cornificius . . . . . . . statuit proptereā appellātum esse, quod accēdēns ad urbem Hannibal ex eō locō redierit, quibusdam vīsīs perterritus.
Cornificius . . . . . . . established that the altar of Rediculus outside the Porta Capena is so called, because Hannibal nearing the City returned from that place, scared away by certain visions.1839 [8th century CE], Paulus Diaconus, edited by Karl Otfried Müller, Excerpta ex libris Pompeii Festi De significatione verborum, page 282, line 23:
Declension
| form | singular | plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | Rediculus | — |
| genitive | Rediculī | — |
| dative | Rediculō | — |
| accusative | Rediculum | — |
| ablative | Rediculō | — |
| vocative | Redicule | — |
Rĕdĭcŭlŭs, i, m. redeo,
I. the name of a Roman divinity, worshipped in a chapel at Rome, before the porta Capena, whence Hannibal set out upon his retreat, Fest. p. 282, 23 Müll.; cf. Paul. ex Fest. p. 283, 4 ib.:
Campus Rediculi, Plin. 10, 43, 60, § 12; v. Tutanus.Origins
Either from redeō (“return”) + -ulus (“diminutive suffix”) or an alteration of rīdiculus, depending on how one chooses to analyse the god.