prandiculum

Latin edit

Etymology edit

From prandium (“first meal, lunch”). The ending could be either the neuter diminutive suffix -culum or the "instrumental" noun suffix -culum. Either formation is unusual: the expected diminutive form from prandium is prandiolum, and the instrumental noun suffix -culum typically attaches to a verbal rather than a nominal base.

Pronunciation edit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /pranˈdi.ku.lum/, [prän̪ˈd̪ɪkʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /pranˈdi.ku.lum/, [prän̪ˈd̪iːkulum]

Noun edit

prandiculum n (genitive prandiculī); second declension

breakfast
- Festus, De Verborum Significatione 250.42:
  Prandicula antiqui dicebant, quae nunc ientacula.
  The ancients called "prandicula" what we now call "ientacula".

Usage notes edit

Not attested in usage in antiquity, but mentioned in a passage by the grammarian Sextus Pompeius Festus as an antiquated term for the meal called iēntāculum (“breakfast”) in Classical Latin.

Declension edit

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	prandiculum	prandicula
Genitive	prandiculī	prandiculōrum
Dative	prandiculō	prandiculīs
Accusative	prandiculum	prandicula
Ablative	prandiculō	prandiculīs
Vocative	prandiculum	prandicula

References edit

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