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Latin
Etymology
From vulpēs (“fox”) + -cula (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
vulpēcula f (genitive vulpēculae); first declension
- diminutive of vulpēs (“fox”)
- A little fox
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
See also
References
- “vulpecula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- vulpecula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.