tussicula

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin tussicula. === Noun === tussicula (medicine, obsolete) A slight cough, less powerful than a tussis. == Latin == === Etymology === From tussis (“cough”) +‎ -cula (diminutive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [tʊsˈsɪ.kʊ.ɫa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [tusˈsiː.ku.la] === Noun === tussicula f (genitive tussiculae); first declension diminutive of tussis (“cough”): little cough ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== → English: tussicula === References === “tussicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “tussicula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.