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Latin
Etymology
From tūs (“incense”) + -culum (diminutive suffix).
Noun
tūsculum n (genitive tūsculī); second declension
- diminutive of tūs: a small amount of incense
Declension
Second-declension noun (neuter).
References
- “tusculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- tusculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “tusculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “tusculum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
- “tusculum”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press