staticulum
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Apparently an irregularly formed diminutive from statua (“statue”) + -culum (diminutive suffix) (with an unexpected change in gender from feminine to neuter, also found in the synonymous statunculum), from statuō (“to erect”), from status (“position, place”), ultimately from the root of sistō (“stand”). Alternatively, derived from the same root by means of the instrument noun suffix -culum, as in operculum (“covering”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /staˈti.ku.lum/, [s̠t̪äˈt̪ɪkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /staˈti.ku.lum/, [st̪äˈt̪iːkulum]
Noun
[edit]staticulum n (genitive staticulī); second declension
- a little statue or image, a statuette
- Synonyms: statunculum, sigillum
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 34.163:
- quae iam luxuria ad aurea quoque, non modo argentea, staticula pervenit
- a luxurious practice that has now got to using not only silver but even gold statuettes
- quae iam luxuria ad aurea quoque, non modo argentea, staticula pervenit
- 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
- etiam pateras, staticula, equorum ornamenta inde medicisque coticulas faciunt
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | staticulum | staticula |
Genitive | staticulī | staticulōrum |
Dative | staticulō | staticulīs |
Accusative | staticulum | staticula |
Ablative | staticulō | staticulīs |
Vocative | staticulum | staticula |
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “staticulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- staticulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *steh₂-
- Latin terms suffixed with -culus
- Latin 4-syllable words
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- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin second declension nouns
- Latin neuter nouns in the second declension
- Latin neuter nouns
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