rusticulus

From rūsticus +‎ -ulus (suffix forming diminutives).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ruːsˈtɪ.kʊ.ɫʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [rusˈtiː.ku.lus]

rūsticulus (feminine rūsticula, neuter rūsticulum); first/second-declension adjective

1. diminutive of rūsticus (“rustic, rural, of the country, countrified”)
   • 56 BCE, Cicero, Pro Sestio 82.6:

     At vero ipsi illi parricidae, quorum ecfrenatus furor alitur impunitate diuturna, adeo vim facinoris sui perhorruerant ut, si paulo longior opinio mortis Sesti fuisset, Gracchum illum suum transferendi in nos criminis causa occidere cogitarint. Sensit rusticulus non incautus—neque enim homines nequam tacere potuerunt—suum sanguinem quaeri ad restinguendam invidiam facinoris Clodiani; mulioniam paenulam arripuit, cum qua primum Romam ad comitia venerat; messoria se corbe contexit.

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   • 86 CE – 103 CE, Martial, Epigrammata 10.20.2:

     Nec doctum satis et parum severum,
     Sed non rusticulum tamen libellum
     Facundo mea Plinio Thalia
     i perfer: brevis est labor peractae
     altum vincere tramitem Suburae.

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First/second-declension adjective.

• rūsticula
• rūsticellus

• “rusticulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “rusticulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “rusticulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.