canticulum

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *keh₂n-

Proto-Indo-European *-éti

Proto-Indo-European *kh₂néti

Proto-Italic *kanō

Latin canō

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Italic *-tus

Latin -tus

Latin cantus

Proto-Indo-European *-kos

Proto-Indo-European *-ikos

Proto-Italic *-ikos

Latin -icus

Latin canticum

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin ulum

Latin canticulum

From canticum (“song or incantation”) + ulum (diminutive suffix).

Noun

canticulum n (genitive canticulī); second declension

1. diminutive of canticum:
   1. a sonnet or little song
   2. a short incantation

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	canticulum	canticula
genitive	canticulī	canticulōrum
dative	canticulō	canticulīs
accusative	canticulum	canticula
ablative	canticulō	canticulīs
vocative	canticulum	canticula

Descendants

• → English: canticle

References

• “canticulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “canticulum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.