agnellus

== Latin == === Etymology === From agnus (“lamb”) + -ellus (diminutive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aŋˈnɛl.lʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [aɲˈɲɛl.lus] === Noun === agnellus m (genitive agnellī); second declension diminutive of agnus: a little lamb, lambkin ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== === References === AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1071: “l'agnello; gli agnelli” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “agnellus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 19 Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “agnĕllus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 264 === Further reading === “agnellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “agnellus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.