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Latin
Etymology
From vallis (“a valley, vale”) + -cula (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
vallicula f (genitive valliculae); first declension
- diminutive of vallis: a glen, dell (little valley)
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Inflection
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “vallicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vallicula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.