tusculum

See also: Tusculum

Latin

Etymology

From tūs (“incense”) +‎ -culum (diminutive suffix).

Noun

tūsculum n (genitive tūsculī); second declension

1. diminutive of tūs: a small amount of incense

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

	singular	plural
nominative	tūsculum	tūscula
genitive	tūsculī	tūsculōrum
dative	tūsculō	tūsculīs
accusative	tūsculum	tūscula
ablative	tūsculō	tūsculīs
vocative	tūsculum	tūscula

References

• “tusculum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• tusculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “tusculum”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “tusculum”, in William Smith, editor (1854, 1857), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, volume 1 & 2, London: Walton and Maberly
• “tusculum”, in Richard Stillwell et al., editor (1976), The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press