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-cule

suffix forming nouns

indicating smallness
⇒ animalcule

Origin

from Latin -culus, diminutive suffix; compare -cle

-cule1

Word Origin
1
variant of -cle1 :
animalcule; molecule; reticule.
Origin
(< F) < Latin -culus, -cula, -culum; see -cle1

-cule2

1
variant of -cle2 :
ridicule.
Origin
(< F) < Latin -culum, -cula; see -cle2

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-culea diminutive suffix of nouns, as in animalcule, molecule.
Also, -cle. [French, or from Latin -culus, -cula, -culum]
-cule
/kjuːl/  
suffix
forming nouns such as molecule, reticule, which were originally diminutives
表示“小”［构成名词, 如molecule, reticule］。
词源
from French -cule or Latin -culus, -cula, -culum.
-culesuffix, corresp. to F. -cule, ad. L. -culus, -cula, -culum, dim. suffix of all three genders: see -culus. In living words, the suffix underwent various phonetic changes in becoming French; e.g. articulus, orteil; auricula, oreille; cuniculus, conil; masculus, masle, mâle; but it remained as -cle after persisting consonants, as in avunculus, oncle; cooperculum, couvercle. After the latter, some words of learned origin were fashioned in -cle; e.g. article; but in modern times the L. ending has been usually adapted in F. as -cule, as corcule, cornicule, corpuscule. In English, both endings -cle and -cule are found, as corpuscle, corpuscule, crepuscle, crepuscule, animalcule, formerly also animalcle, floscule, versicle, etc. The L. endings -culus, -culum are sometimes retained unchanged: see -culus. The ending -cule, with connecting vowel i, is sometimes employed, after L. analogies, to form contemptuous diminutives, as poeticule: cf. criticule.
-cule
word-forming element used to make diminutives, from French -cule or directly from Latin -culus (masc.), -cula (fem.), -culum (neuter); these appear to be variants of the diminutive suffix -ulus (see -ule) used after -i-, -e-, -u-, and consonant stems [Gildersleeve], or might be a double-diminutive involving "an ancient diminutive suffix *-qo-" [Palmer, "The Latin Language"].
There also was a Latin instrumentive suffix -culo-, -culum in baculum "walking stick," gubernaculum "rudder, helm; management, government," operculum "cover, lid," obstaculum "a hindrance, obstacle," oraculum "divine announcement."
-cule /kju:l/ suffix.
ORIGIN: Repr. French -cule from Latin -culus, -cula, -culum, dim. suffix: cf. -cle, -uncle.
Forming (orig. dim.) nouns, as molecule, crepuscule, etc. The Latin endings -culus, -cula, -culum, are retained in some (esp. technical) words from Latin.
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