carpisculus

Latin

Alternative forms

• carpusculus

Etymology

From Ancient Greek κρηπίς (krēpís) + -culus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /karˈpis.ku.lus/, [kärˈpɪs̠kʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /karˈpis.ku.lus/, [kärˈpiskulus]

Noun

carpisculus m (genitive carpisculī); second declension

1. A kind of shoe
2. (architecture) groundwork, basement

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	carpisculus	carpisculī
Genitive	carpisculī	carpisculōrum
Dative	carpisculō	carpisculīs
Accusative	carpisculum	carpisculōs
Ablative	carpisculō	carpisculīs
Vocative	carpiscule	carpisculī

References

• “carpisculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• carpisculus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• carpisculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.