-culus
See also: culus
Latin
Etymology
Rebracketing of diminutive suffix -lus on nouns ending in -cus, used freely.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ku.lus/, [kʊ.ɫʊs] (stressed on the antepenult)
Suffix
-culus m (feminine -cula, neuter -culum); first/second declension
- Alternative form of -ulus; added to a noun to form a diminutive of that noun.
- clāvis (“key”) + -culus → clāvicula (“little key”)
- ōs (“mouth”) + -culus → ōsculum (“little mouth”)
- mās + -culus → māsculus
- sermō + -culus → sermunculus (“rumor; small talk”)
Inflection
First/second declension.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | -culus | -cula | -culum | -culī | -culae | -cula | |
| Genitive | -culī | -culae | -culī | -culōrum | -culārum | -culōrum | |
| Dative | -culō | -culae | -culō | -culīs | -culīs | -culīs | |
| Accusative | -culum | -culam | -culum | -culōs | -culās | -cula | |
| Ablative | -culō | -culā | -culō | -culīs | -culīs | -culīs | |
| Vocative | -cule | -cula | -culum | -culī | -culae | -cula | |
Derived terms
► <a class='CategoryTreeLabel CategoryTreeLabelNs14 CategoryTreeLabelCategory' href='/wiki/Category:Latin_words_suffixed_with_-culus' title='Category:Latin words suffixed with -culus'>Latin words suffixed with -culus</a>
- -unculus (rebracketing)