coticula

Latin

FWOTD – 10 April 2023

Etymology

From cōs +‎ -cula.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /koːˈti.ku.la/, [koːˈt̪ɪkʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /koˈti.ku.la/, [koˈt̪iːkulä]

Noun

cōticula f (genitive cōticulae); first declension

1. a touchstone
2. a small stone mortar for medical use
   • c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 37.140:

     etiam pateras, staticula, equorum ornamenta inde medicisque coticulas faciunt

     and from them also are made dishes, statuettes, horse-trappings and small mortars for the use of pharmacists

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cōticula	cōticulae
genitive	cōticulae	cōticulārum
dative	cōticulae	cōticulīs
accusative	cōticulam	cōticulās
ablative	cōticulā	cōticulīs
vocative	cōticula	cōticulae

References

• “coticula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “coticula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• coticula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.