laterculus
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]A diminutive form of later, formed as later (“a brick or tile”) + -culus (suffix forming diminutives).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /laˈter.ku.lus/, [ɫ̪äˈt̪ɛrkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /laˈter.ku.lus/, [läˈt̪ɛrkulus]
Noun
[edit]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
[edit]Second-declension noun, with locative.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | laterculus | laterculī |
| genitive | laterculī | laterculōrum |
| dative | laterculō | laterculīs |
| accusative | laterculum | laterculōs |
| ablative | laterculō | laterculīs |
| vocative | latercule | laterculī |
| locative | laterculī | laterculīs |
References
[edit]- “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