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English
Noun
bacula
- plural of baculum
Latin
Etymology 1
From bāca (“berry”) + -ula (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
bācula f (genitive bāculae); first declension
- diminutive of bāca: a small berry
Declension
First-declension noun.
Etymology 2
Noun
bacula
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of baculum
References
- “bacula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- bacula 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)
- bacula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.