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Latin
Etymology
From scītus (“beautiful, elegant”) + -ulus (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
Adjective
scītulus (feminine scītula, neuter scītulum); first/second-declension adjective
- diminutive of scītus: handsome, beautiful, pretty, elegant, neat, trim
Declension
First/second-declension adjective.
Derived terms
References
- “scitulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "scitulus", 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)
- “scitulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.