-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
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:
little one:
denticle
-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
< denticle >
< corpuscle >
< funicle >
• -cu·lar
词根词缀:-cle
【来源及含义】Latin: small, insignificant
【同源单词】appendicle, arbuscle, auricle, canticle, carbuncle, caulicle