agellulus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ-?

Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵros

Proto-Italic *agros

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-e-lós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Proto-Italic *agrelos

Archaic Latin *agr̥los

Archaic Latin *agerlos

Latin agellus

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Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ulus

Latin agellulus

From agellus (“a small field”) + -ulus (diminutive suffix). For another example of a double diminutive, compare asellulus, from asellus (“a small donkey”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈɡɛl.lʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈd͡ʒɛl.lu.lus]

Noun

agellulus m (genitive agellulī); second declension

1. a very small field
   • 354 CE – 430 CE, Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis, Epistolae 33.7:

     Nam si in me dilexerunt quod audierant paucis agellulis paternis contemptis ad dei liberam servitutem me fuisse conversum

     For if because they had that I had turned away from my few paternal acres and towards willing servitute of God, they held great regard for me

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	agellulus	agellulī
genitive	agellulī	agellulōrum
dative	agellulō	agellulīs
accusative	agellulum	agellulōs
ablative	agellulō	agellulīs
vocative	agellule	agellulī

References

• “agellulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• agellulus in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• “agellulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “agellulus”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC