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Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of caupōna (inn)

Pronunciation

Noun

caupōnula f (genitive caupōnulae); first declension

  1. 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.

singular plural
nominative caupōnula caupōnulae
genitive caupōnulae caupōnulārum
dative caupōnulae caupōnulīs
accusative caupōnulam caupōnulās
ablative caupōnulā caupōnulīs
vocative caupōnula caupōnulae

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