centunculus

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Latin

Etymology

From centō +‎ -culus.

Noun

centunculus m (genitive centunculī); second declension

  1. small patchwork
  2. bindweed, knotweed

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative centunculus centunculī
genitive centunculī centunculōrum
dative centunculō centunculīs
accusative centunculum centunculōs
ablative centunculō centunculīs
vocative centuncule centunculī

Descendants

  • Italian: centonchio

References

  • “centunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “centunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • centunculus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
  • centunculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “centunculus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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