pomusculum

Latin

Etymology

From pōmum (“fruit”) +‎ -usculus (diminutive suffix).

Noun

pōmusculum n (genitive pōmusculī); second declension

1. diminutive of pōmum (“fruit”)
   • c. 6th century CE, Anthologia Latina 171 (Riese) or 160 (later editors).3:

     Omne genus mali dignum est adsurgere citro,
     Vis cui multa subest corticis et medii.
     Unum quaeque suum referunt pomuscula sucum:
     Ternus ab hoc semper carpitur ore sapor.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter)

	singular	plural
nominative	pōmusculum	pōmuscula
genitive	pōmusculī	pōmusculōrum
dative	pōmusculō	pōmusculīs
accusative	pōmusculum	pōmuscula
ablative	pōmusculō	pōmusculīs
vocative	pōmusculum	pōmuscula

References

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