granulum

== Latin == === Etymology === grānum (“grain, seed”) +‎ -ulum. === Noun === grānulum n (genitive grānulī); second declension diminutive of grānum granule (small grain) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== → Catalan: grànul → English: granule → Italian: granulo → Portuguese: grânulo === References === “granulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “granulum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.