laterculus
Latin
Alternative forms
- latericulus
Etymology
A diminutive form of later, formed as later (“a brick or tile”) + -culus (suffix forming diminutives).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /laˈter.ku.lus/, [ɫ̪äˈt̪ɛrkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /laˈter.ku.lus/, [läˈt̪ɛrkulus]
Noun
laterculus m (genitive laterculī); second declension
- (literally) a small brick or tile
- (transferred senses):
- a kind of pastry (so called because of its being shaped like a tile)
- (among the agrīmēnsōrēs) a tile-shaped piece of land
Declension
Second-declension noun, with locative.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | laterculus | laterculī |
| Genitive | laterculī | laterculōrum |
| Dative | laterculō | laterculīs |
| Accusative | laterculum | laterculōs |
| Ablative | laterculō | laterculīs |
| Vocative | latercule | laterculī |
| Locative | laterculī | laterculīs |
References
- “lătercŭlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “laterculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- laterculus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- lătercŭlus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 890/2
- “laterculus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers