monticellus

monticellus

Latin

Etymology

From monticulus (“small mountain”) +‎ -lus (diminutive suffix). Attested from ca. 500 CE.[1]

Noun

monticellus m (genitive monticellī); second declension (Late Latin)

1. (Late Latin) Diminutive of mōns: small mountain

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	monticellus	monticellī
Genitive	monticellī	monticellōrum
Dative	monticellō	monticellīs
Accusative	monticellum	monticellōs
Ablative	monticellō	monticellīs
Vocative	monticelle	monticellī

Related terms

• monticulus

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Romanian: muncel, munticel, mușcel
• Dalmatian:
  • muncial
• North Italian:
  • Venetian: montexèƚo
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: monticello
  • Sicilian: munticeddu
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: monticheddu
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: moncel
    • French: monceau
    • → Sicilian: munseddu, munzieddu (Calabria)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: montecelo, monticelo
  • Portuguese: Montezelo
  • Spanish: montecillo

References

1. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “montĭcĕllus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 120

Further reading

• “monticellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• monticellus 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)
• monticellus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette