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Latin
Etymology
From latus (“side, flank”) + -culum (diminutive suffix).
Noun
latusculum n (genitive latusculī); second declension
- (of objects) little side
- (of people) little flank
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
References
- “latusculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “latusculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- latusculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.