carbunculus

== Latin == === Etymology === From carbō (“coal, charcoal”) + -culus (diminutive nominal suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [karˈbʊŋ.kʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [karˈbuŋ.ku.lus] === Noun === carbunculus m (genitive carbunculī); second declension diminutive of carbō: small coal (figurative) burning or devouring sorrow (metonymic) kind of sandstone, red toph-stone reddish, bright kind of precious stone, probably comprising the ruby, carbuncle, hyacinth, garnet A disease: (pathology) kind of tumor, carbuncle (phytopathology) disease caused by hoar-frost ==== Inflection ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== carbunculāris ==== Descendants ==== === References === “carbunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “carbunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "carbunculus", 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) “carbunculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.