quaestiuncula

From quaestiō +‎ -cula.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kʷae̯s.tiˈʊŋ.kʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kʷes.tiˈuŋ.ku.la]

quaestiuncula f (genitive quaestiunculae); first declension

1. diminutive of quaestiō (“a little question, a trifling question”)
   • 55 BCE, Cicero, De Oratore 1.102:

     ...alicui Graeculo otioso et loquaci et fortasse docto atque erudito quaestiunculam, de qua meo arbitratu loquar, ponitis?

     Now you ask me a trivial little question, which I am to discuss according to my judgement, as though I were some garrulous little Greek with too much free time, and perhaps learned and educated?

First-declension noun.

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