tusculum

== Latin == === Etymology === From tūs (“incense”) + -culum (diminutive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈtuːs.kʊ.ɫũː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈtus.ku.lum] === Noun === tūsculum n (genitive tūsculī); second declension diminutive of tūs; alternative form of thūsculum (“small amount of incense”) ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). === References === “tuscŭlum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tuscŭlum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.