caseolus

caseolus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree
Latin cāseus
Proto-Indo-European *-lós
Proto-Indo-European *-elós
Proto-Italic *-elos
Latin -ulus
Latin cāseolus

    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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