corculum

== English == === Etymology === From Latin corculum, diminutive of cor (“heart”). Doublet of corcule. === Noun === corculum (plural corcula) (botany, obsolete) The central part of a seed, from which the new plant develops. === Anagrams === curcumol == Latin == === Etymology === From cor (heart) + -culum (diminutive-forming suffix). Compare typologically Macedonian срцка (srcka) (a diminutive of срце (srce), срцуле (srcule) (cognate via PIE). === Noun === corculum n (genitive corculī); second declension a little heart sweetheart ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). === References === “corculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press