vericulum

== Latin == === Etymology === From verū (“dart”) + -culum (diminutive suffix). === Noun === vericulum n (genitive vericulī); second declension a small pointed rod ==== Declension ==== Second-declension noun (neuter). ==== Descendants ==== === References === Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “vĕrĭcŭlum”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 14: U–Z, page 285 === Further reading === “vericulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “vericulum”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.