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Latin
Etymology
From carbō (“coal, charcoal”) + -culus (diminutive nominal suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
carbunculus m (genitive carbunculī); second declension
- diminutive of carbō: small coal
- (figurative) burning or devouring sorrow
- (metonymically)
- kind of sandstone, red toph-stone
- reddish, bright kind of precious stone, probably comprising the ruby, carbuncle, hyacinth, garnet
- A disease:
- (pathology) kind of tumor, carbuncle
- (phytopathology) disease caused by hoar-frost
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Inflection
Second-declension noun.
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