cassiculus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin cassis

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Proto-Italic *-kelos

Latin -culus

Latin cassiculus

From cassis (“net”) + -culus.

Noun

cassiculus m (genitive cassiculī); second declension

1. small net
2. a cobweb, spiderweb

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cassiculus	cassiculī
genitive	cassiculī	cassiculōrum
dative	cassiculō	cassiculīs
accusative	cassiculum	cassiculōs
ablative	cassiculō	cassiculīs
vocative	cassicule	cassiculī

References

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