caseolus

Latin

Etymology

From cāseus (“cheese”) +‎ -ulus (diminutive ending).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kaːˈse.o.lus/, [käːˈs̠eɔɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈse.o.lus/, [käˈs̬ɛːolus]

Noun

cāseolus m (genitive cāseolī); second declension

1. a small cheese

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cāseolus	cāseolī
Genitive	cāseolī	cāseolōrum
Dative	cāseolō	cāseolīs
Accusative	cāseolum	cāseolōs
Ablative	cāseolō	cāseolīs
Vocative	cāseole	cāseolī

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • ⇒ Italian: caciolino (diminutive)
• North Italian:
  • Ladin: ciajuel
  • Lombard: cassœ̀u, kažœ̣l (Alpine)
  • Romansch: chaschiel, caschiel, chaschöl
  • Venetian: casuola
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Occitan:

    Gascon: cusòla, casuela

    Languedocien: casièu (Gévaudan)

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “caseolus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 456

Further reading

• “caseolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• caseolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.