lucunculus

== Latin == === Etymology === From lucūns (“a type of pastry”) +‎ -culus (diminutive suffix). Alternatively, the correct spelling has been argued to be lucuntulus, from lucūns +‎ -ulus. Upon syncope of the unstressed vowel -u-, both of these alternatives would have merged as luncunclus, because of the Latin sound change from -tl- to -cl-. === Noun === lucunculus m (genitive lucunculī); second declension thick pancake (glossed with Greek τηγανίτης (tēganítēs), the full recipe of which is described by Galen) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== → Ancient Greek: λούκουντλος (loúkountlos) === References === === Further reading === “lucunculus” in volume 7, part 1, column 1750, line 31 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present “lucuntulus” in volume 7, part 1, column 1750, line 44 in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present “lucunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “lucunculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.