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diverticuli

diverticuli is the misconstruction of diverticula.

Origin of diverticuli

By misremembering a neuter Latin noun as being a masculine one. The same error happens with others as well (for example, with *inoculus/inoculi for inoculum/inocula); it is relevant in scientific contexts where English uses many learned borrowings from New Latin.

Questions about diverticuli

What is diverticuli the misconstruction of?
Diverticuli is the misconstruction of diverticula.

Words near diverticuli in the dictionary

  1. diverticular
  2. diverticulate
  3. diverticulated
  4. diverticulectomies
  5. diverticulectomy
  6. diverticuli
  7. diverticulites
  8. diverticulitis
  9. diverticulopexies
  10. diverticulopexy
  11. diverticuloses

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Adapted from Wiktionary: diverticuli (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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