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noun a railway up the side of a mountain pulled by a moving cable and having counterbalancing ascending and descending cars
adjective relating to or operated by a cable
originFrom Latin fūniculus (“thinner cord”), diminutive from fūnis (“rope, cord”) + -culus. By surface analysis, funicul(us) + -ar.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0