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Latin
Etymology
From cāseus (“cheese”) + -ulus (diminutive ending).
Pronunciation
Noun
cāseolus m (genitive cāseolī); second declension
- a small cheese
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Occitano-Romance:
References
Further reading
- “caseolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- caseolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.