tirunculus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin tirō

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Proto-Italic *-kelos

Latin -culus

Latin tīrunculus

From tirō + -culus (diminutive suffix).

Noun

tīrunculus m (genitive tīrunculī); second declension

1. diminutive of tirō: small or young recruit

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tīrunculus	tīrunculī
genitive	tīrunculī	tīrunculōrum
dative	tīrunculō	tīrunculīs
accusative	tīrunculum	tīrunculōs
ablative	tīrunculō	tīrunculīs
vocative	tīruncule	tīrunculī

Derived terms

• tīruncula

References

• “tirunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “tirunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "tirunculus", 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)
• “tirunculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• tirunculus in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016