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Latin
Etymology
From lucrum (“profit, advantage”) + -lum (diminutive suffix).
Noun
lucellum n (genitive lucellī); second declension
- small gain
- slight profit
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
References
- “lucellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lucellum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- lucellum 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)
- lucellum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.