-uculus

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Latin

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Etymology

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Alteration, probably by rebracketing, of diminutive suffix -culus. (Some words ending in -uculus can be analyzed as containing -culus preceded by the stem vowel -u- of the fourth declension, such as genuculum from genū̆.)

Pronunciation

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Suffix

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-uculus (feminine -ucula, neuter -uculum); first/second-declension suffix

  1. Alternative form of -culus
    1. added to a noun to form a diminutive of that noun.

Derived terms

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