-uculus

== Latin == === Etymology === Alteration, probably by rebracketing, of diminutive suffix -culus. (Some words ending in -uculus can be analyzed as containing -culus preceded by the stem vowel -u- of the fourth declension, such as genuculum from genū̆.) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ʊ.kʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [u.ku.lus] === Suffix === -uculus (feminine -ucula, neuter -uculum); first/second-declension suffix alternative form of -culus added to a noun to form a diminutive of that noun. ==== Derived terms ====