centunculus

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From centō +‎ -culus.

Noun[edit]

centunculus m (genitive centunculī); second declension

  1. small patchwork
  2. bindweed, knotweed

Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative centunculus centunculī
Genitive centunculī centunculōrum
Dative centunculō centunculīs
Accusative centunculum centunculōs
Ablative centunculō centunculīs
Vocative centuncule centunculī

Descendants[edit]

  • Italian: centonchio

References[edit]

  • centunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • centunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • centunculus 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)
  • centunculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • centunculus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers