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-cule
-cule suffix forming nouns indicating smallness: animalcule. [from Latin -culus, diminutive suffix; compare -cle]-cle1 , a suffix of Latin diminutive nouns borrowed into English via French: used later in adaptations of words borrowed directly from Latin: article; conventicle; corpuscle; particle. [< French, Old French < Latin -culus, -a, -um, variant of -ulus -ule] -cle2 , a suffix of Latin nouns borrowed into English via French: used later in adaptations of words borrowed directly from Latin; in Latin, it formed nouns that denoted a place appropriate to the action of a verb (cubicle; receptacle) or a means by which the action is performed (vehicle). [< French, Old French < Latin -culum, -cula] -cule
-cule, -cle [Fr. -cle, fr. L. -culus, adj. suffix] Suffixes meaning little, as molecule and corpuscle. |