arbuscula

== Latin == === Alternative forms === arbusculus m (Late Latin) === Etymology === From arbor (“tree”) +‎ -cula (diminutive suffix) (built on the originally s-final stem of the noun, attested also in the archaic nominative form arbōs). Compare typologically Turkish ağaççık (a diminutive of ağaç). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [arˈbʊs.kʊ.ɫa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [arˈbus.ku.la] === Noun === arbuscula f (genitive arbusculae); first declension diminutive of arbor: sapling (small tree), shrub, bush tuft of feathers etc. resembling a bush (rare) wood bored to receive an axle, therefore possibly the nave of a wheel ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. === References === “arbuscula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “arbuscula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “arbuscula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers arbuscula in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016 “arbuscula”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray