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

Noun edit

laterculus m (genitive laterculī); second declension

  1. (literally) a small brick or tile
  2. (transferred senses):
    1. a kind of pastry (so called because of its being shaped like a tile)
    2. (among the agrīmēnsōrēs) a tile-shaped piece of land

Declension edit

Second-declension noun, with locative.

Case 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