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-cle

suffix forming nouns

indicating smallness
cubicle
particle

Origin

via Old French from Latin -culus. See -cule

-cle1

Word Origin
1
a suffix found in French loanwords of Latin origin, originally diminutive nouns, and later in adaptations of words borrowed directly from Latin or in Neo-Latin coinages:
article; conventicle; corpuscle; particle.
Origin
< French, Old French < Latin -culus, -cula, -culum, variant of -ulus -ule with nouns of the 3rd, 4th and 5th declensions, usually with the same gender as the base noun

-cle2

1
a suffix found in French loanwords of Latin origin, later in adaptations of words borrowed directly from Latin; in Latin, this suffix formed from verbs nouns that denoted a place appropriate to the action of the verb (cubicle, receptacle) or a means by which the action is performed (vehicle).
Origin
< French, Old French < Latin -culum, -cula < *-tlom, *-tlā

Related Words

  • -cule
  • -ule
  • adminicle
  • auricle
  • cenacle
  • conventicle
-clevariant of -cule.
[Latin -culus, -cula, -culum; in some words, from French]
-cle
/kl/  
suffix
forming nouns such as article, particle, which were originally diminutives
[构成名词, 此类词原为指小词, 如article, particle]。
词源
via French from Latin -culus, -cula, -culum.
-cle

little one:
denticle
-cle /k(ə)l, after s (ə)l/ suffix (not productive).Repr. French -cle from Latin -culus, -a, -um -cule, as in article, corpuscle, follicle, ventricle, etc.
-cle
suffix.
little, as in corpuscle, particle.
other meanings, as in receptacle, vehicle.
[< Old French -cle < Latin -culus, -cula, -culum, or directly < Latin]
-cle
\kəl\ noun suffix
(-s)
Etymology: Middle English, from Old French, from Latin -culus, -cula, -culum
: little one
 < denticle >
 < corpuscle >
 < funicle >
-cu·lar \kyələ(r)\ adjective suffix

词根词缀:-cle

【来源及含义】Latin: small, insignificant

【同源单词】appendicle, arbuscle, auricle, canticle, carbuncle, caulicle

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