monticellus
Latin
Etymology
From monticulus (“small mountain”) + -lus (diminutive suffix). Attested from ca. 500 CE.[1]
Noun
monticellus m (genitive monticellī); second declension (Late Latin)
- diminutive of mōns (“mountain”)
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | monticellus | monticellī |
| genitive | monticellī | monticellōrum |
| dative | monticellō | monticellīs |
| accusative | monticellum | monticellōs |
| ablative | monticellō | monticellīs |
| vocative | monticelle | monticellī |
Related terms
Descendants
- Balkan Romance:
- Dalmatian:
- North Italian:
- Venetan: montexèƚo
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: monticello
- Sicilian: munticeddu
- Insular Romance:
- Sardinian: monticheddu
- Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: moncel
- French: monceau
- → Sicilian: munseddu, munzieddu (Calabria)
- Old French: moncel
- Ibero-Romance:
- Galician: montecelo, monticelo
- Portuguese: Montezelo
- Spanish: montecillo
References
- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “montĭcĕllus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 6/3: Mobilis–Myxa, page 120
Further reading
- “monticellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "monticellus", 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)
- monticellus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.