fraterculus

== Latin == === Etymology === From frāter + -culus. === Noun === frāterculus m (genitive frāterculī); second declension diminutive of frāter (“brother; friend”) A little brother. A familiar appellation given to a friend. ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== === References === “fraterculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "fraterculus", 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) “fraterculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.