laterculus

Latin

Alternative forms

• latericulus

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin later

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Proto-Italic *-kelos

Latin -culus

Latin laterculus

From later (“brick; tile”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

laterculus m (genitive laterculī); second declension

1. (literally) small brick; small tile

   Synonym: later

2. (transferred senses):
   1. a kind of pastry (so called because of its being shaped like a tile)
   2. (among the agrimēnsōrēs) a tile-shaped piece of land

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	laterculus	laterculī
genitive	laterculī	laterculōrum
dative	laterculō	laterculīs
accusative	laterculum	laterculōs
ablative	laterculō	laterculīs
vocative	latercule	laterculī

References

• “lătercŭlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “laterculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "laterculus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “lătercŭlus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 890/2.
• “laterculus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers