orbiculus

== Latin == === Etymology === From orbis (“a ring, disk, circle”) +‎ -culus (diminutive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɔrˈbɪ.kʊ.ɫʊs] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [orˈbiː.ku.lus] === Noun === orbiculus m (genitive orbiculī); second declension diminutive of orbis: a small disk; a sheave, roller, pulley, etc. ==== Inflection ==== Second-declension noun. ==== Derived terms ==== orbiculāris (adjective) orbiculātim (adverb) orbiculātus (adjective) orbiculor (verb) === References === “orbiculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press "orbiculus", 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) “orbiculus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. “orbiculus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers