opusculum

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin opusculum. === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /oʊˈpʌs.kjuː.ləm/ Hyphenation: o‧pus‧cu‧lum === Noun === opusculum (plural opuscula) An opuscule; a short work. == Latin == === Etymology === opus (“work, labor”) +‎ -culus (diminutive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔˈpʊs.kʊ.ɫũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [oˈpus.ku.lum] === Noun === opusculum n (genitive opusculī); second declension diminutive of opus a minor work, (especially) of literature (understatement) as a modest description of a large literary work (New Latin) an article (also in a periodical); an entry ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== === Further reading === “opusculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “opusculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "opusculum", 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) “opusculum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.