oratiuncula

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin ōrō

Proto-Indo-European *-tis

Proto-Indo-European *-Hō

Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō

Proto-Italic *-tiō

Latin -tiō

Latin ōrātiō

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Proto-Italic *-kelos

Latin -cula

Latin ōrātiuncula

From ōrātiō (“speech”) + -cula (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [oː.raː.tiˈʊŋ.kʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [o.rat.t͡siˈuŋ.ku.la]

Noun

ōrātiuncula f (genitive ōrātiunculae); first declension

1. a little speech, a few remarks

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ōrātiuncula	ōrātiunculae
genitive	ōrātiunculae	ōrātiunculārum
dative	ōrātiunculae	ōrātiunculīs
accusative	ōrātiunculam	ōrātiunculās
ablative	ōrātiunculā	ōrātiunculīs
vocative	ōrātiuncula	ōrātiunculae

References

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