laterculus
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
A diminutive form of later, formed as later (“a brick or tile”) + -culus (suffix forming diminutives).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /laˈter.ku.lus/, [ɫaˈtɛr.kʊ.ɫʊs]
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, 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 |
Descendants
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, 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
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