contiuncula

Latin

Etymology

cōntiō (“speech before a public assembly”) +‎ -cula (diminutive suffix)

Pronunciation

Noun

cōntiuncula f (genitive cōntiunculae); first declension

  1. (rare) a short harangue or speech
  2. 68 BCE – 44 BCE, Cicero, Epistulae ad Atticum 2.16.1:
    Quae mihi videtur una contiuncula clamore pedisequorum nostrorum esse peritura
    Which seems to me, one short speech that, will be drowned out by the outcry of our followers

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative cōntiuncula cōntiunculae
genitive cōntiunculae cōntiunculārum
dative cōntiunculae cōntiunculīs
accusative cōntiunculam cōntiunculās
ablative cōntiunculā cōntiunculīs
vocative cōntiuncula cōntiunculae

References

  • “contiuncula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “contiuncula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
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