caseolus

Latin

Etymology

From cāseus (“cheese”) +‎ -ulus (diminutive ending).

Pronunciation

Noun

cāseolus m (genitive cāseolī); second declension

  1. a small cheese

Declension

Second-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative cāseolus cāseolī
genitive cāseolī cāseolōrum
dative cāseolō cāseolīs
accusative cāseolum cāseolōs
ablative cāseolō cāseolīs
vocative cāseole cāseolī

Descendants

  • Italo-Dalmatian:
    • Italian: caciola, caciuola, ⇒ caciolina, caciolino (diminutives)
    • Venetan: casuola
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Lombard: cassœ̀u, kažœ̣l (Alpine)
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Occitan:
      Gascon: cusòla, casuela
      Languedocien: casièu (Gévaudan)

References

Further reading

  • “caseolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • caseolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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