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English
Noun
cornicula
- plural of corniculum
Latin
Etymology 1
From cornīx f (“crow”) + -ula (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
cornīcula f (genitive cornīculae); first declension
- a small crow
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
- via *cornĭcla:
- via *cornacla:
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
Noun
cornicula
- nominative/accusative/vocative plural of corniculum
References
- “cornicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cornicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cornicula 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)
- cornicula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “cornīcula”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 1190