Uncommon variant of the diminutive suffix -culus (itself from -ulus), formed by rebracketing of diminutives derived from original s-stem nouns (such as opusculum from opus, operis n).
-usculus (feminine -uscula, neuter -usculum); first/second-declension suffix
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | -usculus | -uscula | -usculum | -usculī | -usculae | -uscula | |
| Genitive | -usculī | -usculae | -usculī | -usculōrum | -usculārum | -usculōrum | |
| Dative | -usculō | -usculō | -usculīs | ||||
| Accusative | -usculum | -usculam | -usculum | -usculōs | -usculās | -uscula | |
| Ablative | -usculō | -usculā | -usculō | -usculīs | |||
| Vocative | -uscule | -uscula | -usculum | -usculī | -usculae | -uscula | |