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English
Etymology
From Latin quantulum.
Noun
quantulum
- (obsolete) A very small amount.
1832, The Quarterly Review (London), volume 98, page 198:[…] that a brave, vigorous, and consistent forwardness, guarded by just such a quantulum of tact as may save it from being signally offensive, will always ensure a certain degree of advancement; […]
1845, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, The North American Review, volume 60, page 52:[…] with a little French and a little Spanish, a quantulum of wayside knowledge gleaned from lecture-rooms, and a smattering of half a dozen branches of science, that might as well have been studied at a country academy.
Latin
Adjective
quantulum
- inflection of quantulus:
- nominative/accusative/vocative neuter singular
- accusative masculine singular
References
- “quantulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “quantulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- quantulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.