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Latin
Etymology
Diminutive of caupōna (“inn”)
Pronunciation
Noun
caupōnula f (genitive caupōnulae); first declension
- small inn
44 BCE – 43 BCE,
Cicero,
Philippicae 2.77:
- Cum hora diei decima fere ad Saxa rubra venisset, delituit in quadam cauponula
- At about the tenth hour of the day he had arrived at Red Rocks, he skulked into a small inn
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “cauponula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cauponula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cauponula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- cauponula in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016