asellus

== Latin == === Etymology === From asinus +‎ -lus (diminutive suffix). === Noun === asellus m (genitive asellī); second declension Small or young ass or donkey; diminutive of asinus ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== asinus ==== Descendants ==== Italian: asello, nasello → Gothic: 𐌰𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌿𐍃 (asilus) → Proto-Slavic: *osьlъ (see there for further descendants) → Old Irish: asal (see there for further descendants) → Proto-West Germanic: *asil (see there for further descendants) → Translingual: Asellus === References === “asellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “asellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "asellus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887) “asellus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “asellus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray