staticulum

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Latin

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Etymology

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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

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Noun

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staticulum n (genitive staticulī); second declension

  1. 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
    • 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

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Second-declension noun (neuter).

singular plural
nominative staticulum staticula
genitive staticulī staticulōrum
dative staticulō staticulīs
accusative staticulum staticula
ablative staticulō staticulīs
vocative staticulum staticula

References

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  1. ^ Cooper, Frederic Taber (1895) Word Formation in the Roman Sermo Plebeius, page 90

Further reading

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  • 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.