funicular

From Latin fūniculus (“cord”), diminutive from fūnis (“cord”) + -culus.

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• Rhymes: -ɪkjʊlə(ɹ)

funicular (comparative more funicular, superlative most funicular)

1. Of, pertaining to, resembling, or powered by a rope or cable
2. (medicine) Of or pertaining to the umbilical cord.
3. (botany) Having a fleshy covering of the seed formed from the funiculus, the attachment point of the seed.
4. (geometry) catenary

funicular (plural funiculars)

1. A particular type of rail transit system which ascends a steep urban or mountain incline, having usually two cars sharing a single track, with the cars linked by a moving cable and an arrangement of pulleys such that the descending car assists in the hoisting of the ascending car, i.e. the two cars serve as counterweights for each other.

   Synonyms: funicular railway, cliff railway

   • 2021 January 13, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Spectacular funiculars”, in RAIL, issue 922, page 50:

     England's funiculars mostly hug the coast, and this is no coincidence. The development of the Victorian and Edwardian seaside resort played a central role in the uptake of funicular railways across England.

• IPA^(key): (Central) [fu.ni.kuˈlar]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [fu.ni.kuˈla]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [fu.ni.kuˈlaɾ]

funicular m or f (masculine and feminine plural funiculars)

1. funicular

funicular m (plural funiculars)

1. cable car, funicular

• “funicular” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “funicular”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “funicular” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “funicular” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

funicular m or f (plural funiculares)

1. funicular (powered by a rope or cable)

funicular m (plural funiculares)

1. funicular (rail transit system which ascends an incline)

From Latin fūniculus (“cord”), diminutive of fūnis (“cord”).

• IPA^(key): [fu.ni.kuˈlaʳ]

funicular n

1. rope railway

• IPA^(key): /funikuˈlaɾ/ [fu.ni.kuˈlaɾ]
• Rhymes: -aɾ
• Syllabification: fu‧ni‧cu‧lar

funicular m (plural funiculares)

1. funicular, cable car

• “funicular”, in Diccionario de la lengua española (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy, 2023 November 28