libellus

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Latin

Etymology

Diminutive from liber (“book”) +‎ -lus.

Pronunciation

Noun

libellus m (genitive libellī); second declension

  1. a little book, booklet, pamphlet
    • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martial, Epigrammata 7.3:
      Cūr nōn mitto meōs tibi, Pontiliāne, libellōs?
      nē mihi tū mittās, Pontiliāne, tuōs.
      Why do I not send my little books to you, Pontilianus?
      So that you, Pontilianus, don't send yours to me.
  2. a billet, leaflet, handbill
  3. a petition
    • Dictum est autem: Quicumque dimiserit uxorem suam, det ei libellum repudii. :
      And it has been said: 'Whoever would dismiss his wife, let him give her a bill of divorce'. Vulgate, Mt 5, 31

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative libellus libellī
genitive libellī libellōrum
dative libellō libellīs
accusative libellum libellōs
ablative libellō libellīs
vocative libelle libellī

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References

  • “libellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “libellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • libellus 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)
  • libellus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “libellus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “libellus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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