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Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: -ule suffix forming nouns - indicating smallness: globule
Etymology: from Latin -ulus, diminutive suffix u•le (o̅o̅′lā),USA pronunciation n. - Plant Biologycaucho.
- Plant Biologya tree that produces caucho.
- Nahuatl ōlli caoutchouc
- Mexican Spanish (h)ule
- 1840–50
- a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, originally diminutive nouns (capsule;
globule;
nodule) or noun derivatives of verbs (ligule).
- Latin -ulus, -ula, -ulum diminutive formative with nouns of the 1st and 2d declensions *-el- (compare -cle1, -elle, -ole1); the deverbal suffix -ulus, etc. (compare cingulum, tumulus) is of distinct origin, originally
- French
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