nucunculus

== Latin == === Etymology === From nux (“nut”) + -unculus (diminutive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [nʊˈkʊŋ.kʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [nuˈkuŋ.ku.lus] === Noun === nucunculus m (genitive nucunculī); second declension (hapax legomenon) diminutive of nux ==== Usage notes ==== This word is a hapax legomenon that is only attested in a table of Tironian notes (shorthand abbreviations). Because of this, we do not know in what context it was used, and therefore do not know its exact meaning. According to Lewis and Short, it might refer to a type of nut-cake (compare lucunculus and lībācunculus). ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun. === References === “nucunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “nucunculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. Schmitz, Wilhelm (editor). 1893. Commentarii notarum tironianarum cum prolegomenis adnotationibus criticis et exegeticis notarumque indice alphabetico. Commentarii IV. Cap. III. IV., tab. 109 (Gr. 176, 177), nota 33.