opusculum

Borrowed from Latin opusculum.

• (US) IPA^(key): /oʊˈpʌs.kjuː.ləm/
• Hyphenation: o‧pus‧cu‧lum

opusculum (plural opuscula)

1. An opuscule; a short work.

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opus (“work, labor”) +‎ -culus (diminutive suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /oˈpus.ku.lum/, [ɔˈpʊs.kʊ.ɫũ]

opusculum n (genitive opusculī); second declension

1. a little work, a trifle

Second declension.

• English: opuscule
• French: opuscule
• Italian: opuscolo
• Spanish: opúsculo

• opusculum in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• opusculum in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• opusculum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• opusculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette