carbunculus

Latin

Etymology

From carbō, carbōnis +‎ -culus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /karˈbun.ku.lus/, [kärˈbʊŋkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /karˈbun.ku.lus/, [kärˈbuŋkulus]

Noun

carbunculus m (genitive carbunculī); second declension

1. carbuncle (all meanings)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	carbunculus	carbunculī
Genitive	carbunculī	carbunculōrum
Dative	carbunculō	carbunculīs
Accusative	carbunculum	carbunculōs
Ablative	carbunculō	carbunculīs
Vocative	carbuncule	carbunculī

Descendants

• → English: carbuncle
• → French: carboucle, carboncle
• Galician: caruncho
• Italian: carbonchio, carbuncolo

• Portuguese: carbúnculo
• → Russian: карбу́нкул (karbúnkul)
• Spanish: carbunclo, carbúnculo

References

• “carbunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “carbunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• carbunculus 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)
• carbunculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.