nucunculus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From nux (“nut”) + -unculus (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /nuˈkun.ku.lus/, [nʊˈkʊŋkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /nuˈkun.ku.lus/, [nuˈkuŋkulus]
Noun edit
nucunculus m (genitive nucunculī); second declension
- (hapax) Diminutive of nux
Usage notes edit
This word is a hapax legomenon that is only attested in a table of Tironian notes (shorthand abbreviations). Because of this, we do not know in what context it was used, and therefore do not know its exact meaning. According to Lewis and Short, it might refer to a type of nut-cake (compare lucunculus and lībācunculus).
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | nucunculus | nucunculī |
| Genitive | nucunculī | nucunculōrum |
| Dative | nucunculō | nucunculīs |
| Accusative | nucunculum | nucunculōs |
| Ablative | nucunculō | nucunculīs |
| Vocative | nucuncule | nucunculī |
References edit
- “nucunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- nucunculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Schmitz, Wilhelm (editor). 1893. Commentarii notarum tironianarum cum prolegomenis adnotationibus criticis et exegeticis notarumque indice alphabetico. Commentarii IV. Cap. III. IV., tab. 109 (Gr. 176, 177), nota 33.