tussicula

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin tussicula.

Noun

tussicula

  1. (medicine, obsolete) A slight cough, less powerful than a tussis.
See also: partícula and particulă

Latin

Etymology

From tussis (“cough”) +‎ -cula (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

tussicula f (genitive tussiculae); first declension

  1. diminutive of tussis (“cough”): little cough

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative tussicula tussiculae
genitive tussiculae tussiculārum
dative tussiculae tussiculīs
accusative tussiculam tussiculās
ablative tussiculā tussiculīs
vocative tussicula tussiculae

Descendants

  • → English: tussicula

References

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