canticulum

== Latin == === Etymology === From canticum (“song or incantation”) + ulum (diminutive suffix). === Noun === canticulum n (genitive canticulī); second declension diminutive of canticum: a sonnet or little song a short incantation ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== English: canticle === References === “canticulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “canticulum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.