fulica

• fulix

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]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfʊ.lɪ.ka]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfuː.li.ka]

fulica f (genitive fulicae); first declension

1. a coot
   • c. 37 BCE – 30 BCE, Virgil, Georgics 1.359–364:

     Iam sibi tum a curvis male temperat unda carinis,
     Cum medio celeres revolant ex aequore mergi
     Clamoremque ferunt ad litora, cumque marinae
     in sicco ludunt fulicae, notasque paludes
     Deserit atque altam supra volat ardea nubem.

     See the billowing waves not spare the curved-keeled boats, as quick loons fly back from the deep and let resound their cry towards the shore, as the coot solaces on dry land and herons leave the ponds they know so well and take to the heights, towering over the clouds.

2. waterfowl

First-declension noun.

See also fulix.

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

• “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.