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orbiculus
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Latin
Etymology
From orbis (“a ring, disk, circle”) + -culus (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔrˈbɪ.kʊ.ɫʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [orˈbiː.ku.lus]
Noun
orbiculus m (genitive orbiculī); second declension
Inflection
Second-declension noun.
Derived terms
- orbiculāris (adjective)
- orbiculātim (adverb)
- orbiculātus (adjective)
- orbiculor (verb)
References
- “orbiculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "orbiculus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- “orbiculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “orbiculus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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