carbunculus

Latin

Etymology

From carbō (“coal, charcoal”) +‎ -culus (diminutive nominal suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

carbunculus m (genitive carbunculī); second declension

  1. diminutive of carbō: small coal
    1. (figurative) burning or devouring sorrow
  2. (metonymic)
    1. kind of sandstone, red toph-stone
    2. reddish, bright kind of precious stone, probably comprising the ruby, carbuncle, hyacinth, garnet
    3. A disease:
      1. (pathology) kind of tumor, carbuncle
      2. (phytopathology) disease caused by hoar-frost

Inflection

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative carbunculus carbunculī
genitive carbunculī carbunculōrum
dative carbunculō carbunculīs
accusative carbunculum carbunculōs
ablative carbunculō carbunculīs
vocative carbuncule carbunculī

Descendants

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.
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