Latin edit

Etymology edit

Diminutive of Latin culter (knife): culter +‎ -lus.

Noun edit

cultellus m (genitive cultellī); second declension

  1. small knife
  2. dagger

Declension edit

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative cultellus cultellī
Genitive cultellī cultellōrum
Dative cultellō cultellīs
Accusative cultellum cultellōs
Ablative cultellō cultellīs
Vocative cultelle cultellī

Descendants edit

References edit

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