canticulum

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Latin

Etymology

From canticum (song or incantation) +‎ -ulum (diminutive suffix).

Noun

canticulum n (genitive canticulī); second declension

  1. diminutive of canticum:
    1. a sonnet or little song
    2. a short incantation

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Descendants

  • English: canticle

References

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