-clus

== Latin == === Etymology === Contracted form of -culus. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [kɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [klus] === Suffix === -clus (feminine -cla, neuter -clum); first/second-declension suffix alternative form of -culus added to a noun to form a diminutive of that noun. ==== Declension ==== First/second-declension adjective. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== References ==== Grandgent, Charles Hall (1907), An Introduction to Vulgar Latin (Heath's Modern Language Series), D. C. Heath & Company, page 100