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Latin
Etymology
From mūnus (“service, favor, gift”) + -culum (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
mūnusculum n (genitive mūnusculī); second declension
- diminutive of mūnus: small present, service or favour
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
References
- “munusculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “munusculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- munusculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.