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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin opusculum.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /oʊˈpʌs.kjuː.ləm/
- Hyphenation: o‧pus‧cu‧lum
Noun
opusculum (plural opuscula)
- An opuscule; a short work.
Latin
Etymology
opus (“work, labor”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
opusculum n (genitive opusculī); second declension
- diminutive of opus
- a minor work, (especially) of literature
- (understatement) as a modest description of a large literary work
- (New Latin) an article (also in a periodical); an entry
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
Descendants
Further reading
- “opusculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “opusculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- opusculum 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)
- opusculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.