-usculus
Latin
Etymology
From the diminutive suffix -culus (itself from -ulus), by rebracketing of diminutives derived from original s-stem nouns and adjectives, such as opusculum (“little work”) from opus, operis n (“work”) and meliusculus (“a little better”) from melior, melius, meliōr- (“better”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈʊs.kʊ.ɫʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈus.ku.lus]
Suffix
-usculus (feminine -uscula, neuter -usculum); first/second-declension suffix (uncommon)
- Suffix forming diminutives from nouns. Ultimately an extended form of -ulus.
- herba (“plant, herb”) → herbuscula (“little plant”)
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
| singular | plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | masculine | feminine | neuter | ||
| nominative | -usculus | -uscula | -usculum | -usculī | -usculae | -uscula | |
| genitive | -usculī | -usculae | -usculī | -usculōrum | -usculārum | -usculōrum | |
| dative | -usculō | -usculae | -usculō | -usculīs | |||
| accusative | -usculum | -usculam | -usculum | -usculōs | -usculās | -uscula | |
| ablative | -usculō | -usculā | -usculō | -usculīs | |||
| vocative | -uscule | -uscula | -usculum | -usculī | -usculae | -uscula | |
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 David Pharies (1999), “Origin of the Hispano-Romance Suffix -ucho”, in Iberoromania[1], number 49, archived from the original on 17 August 2024