prandiculum

Latin

Etymology

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

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

Noun

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

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

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

“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.