fuscinula

Diminutive of fuscina (“trident, three-pronged spear”).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fʊsˈkɪ.nʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fuʃˈʃiː.nu.la]

fuscinula f (genitive fuscinulae); first declension

1. A small three-pronged fork; flesh hook, fish hook.

First-declension noun.

• fascina

• “fuscinula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• fuscinula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• The Bible: 1 Samuel, Chapter 2 [1]. URL accessed on 2009-05-20.