famulus

1. 1.

   a close attendant (as to a scholar)

   Broaderattendant

Other forms of famulus

plural

famuli

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about famulus

What does famulus mean?

famulus means "a close attendant (as to a scholar)".

How many syllables are in famulus?

famulus has 3 syllables: fa-mu-lus. The stress falls on "fa".

Is famulus a common word?

famulus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.