famulus
noun
famulus is a noun meaning “A close attendant or assistant, especially of a magician or occult scholar” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-M-U-L-U-S, and it appears about once in every 87 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of famulus is famuli.
What does famulus mean?
noun
- 1
A close attendant or assistant, especially of a magician or occult scholar.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of famulus
- famuli plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is famulus?
Famulus appears about once in every 87 million words in written English, the 297,763rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does famulus come from?
From Latin famulus (“servant”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).