cultellus

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of Latin culter (“knife”): culter +‎ -lus.

Noun

cultellus m (genitive cultellī); second declension

1. small knife
2. dagger

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cultellus	cultellī
Genitive	cultellī	cultellōrum
Dative	cultellō	cultellīs
Accusative	cultellum	cultellōs
Ablative	cultellō	cultellīs
Vocative	cultelle	cultellī

Descendants

• Aromanian: curtelã
• Aragonese: cuitiello
• Asturian: cuchiellu
• Catalan: coltell
• Dalmatian: cortial
• Istriot: curtielo
• Italian: coltello
• Occitan: cotèl,cotèth, cotèu
• Old French: coutel
  • French: coutelas
    • English: cutlass
  • → English: cutlery
  • French: couteau
  • Norman: couoté (France), couté (Jersey)

• Old Galician-Portuguese: cuitelo
  • Galician: coitelo
  • Portuguese: cutelo
• Romansch: cuntè, cunti, cuntel, curtè
• Sardinian: gorteddu, gurteddu, cultedhu, culteddu, boltedhu, bulteddu
• Sicilian: cuteddu
• Old Spanish: cuchiello, cochiello
  • Spanish: cuchillo
• Venetian: cortèƚo, cortèl
• → Welsh: cyllell

References

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