quantulum

English

Etymology

From Latin quantulum.

Noun

quantulum

1. (obsolete) A very small amount.
   • 1832, The Quarterly Review (London), volume 98, page 198:

     […] that a brave, vigorous, and consistent forwardness, guarded by just such a quantulum of tact as may save it from being signally offensive, will always ensure a certain degree of advancement; […]

   • 1845, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, The North American Review, volume 60, page 52:

     […] with a little French and a little Spanish, a quantulum of wayside knowledge gleaned from lecture-rooms, and a smattering of half a dozen branches of science, that might as well have been studied at a country academy.

Related terms

• quantum

Latin

Adjective

quantulum

1. inflection of quantulus:
   1. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
   2. accusative masculine singular

References

• “quantulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “quantulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• quantulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.