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Latin
Etymology
From orbis (“a ring, disk, circle”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
orbiculus m (genitive orbiculī); second declension
- diminutive of orbis: a small disk; a sheave, roller, pulley, etc.
Inflection
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
References
- “orbiculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- orbiculus 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)
- orbiculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “orbiculus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers