monticulus

English

Etymology

Latin monticulus

Noun

monticulus (plural monticuli)

  1. A little elevation.

Latin

Etymology

From mōns (“mountain”) +‎ -i- +‎ -culus (suffix forming a diminutive noun). Attested from the fourth century CE.[1]

Noun

monticulus m (genitive monticulī); second declension

  1. (Late Latin) Diminutive of mōns: small mountain, monticle
  2. (Medieval Latin) mosque (Can we verify(+) this sense?)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative monticulus monticulī
Genitive monticulī monticulōrum
Dative monticulō monticulīs
Accusative monticulum monticulōs
Ablative monticulō monticulīs
Vocative monticule monticulī

Derived terms

Descendants

(Capitalized forms are toponyms.)

  • Italo-Western Romance:
    • French: Monteil
    • Gascon: montèlh
    • Galician: Montellos
    • Italian: monticchio, Montecchio
  • Insular Romance:
    • Sardinian: montícru, montígiu, montigru, montiju, montigu
  • Borrowings:

References
  1. Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “montĭcŭlus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 120

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