caseolus

Latin

Etymology

From cāseus (“cheese”) +‎ -ulus (diminutive ending).

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /kaːˈse.o.lus/, [käːˈs̠eɔɫ̪ʊs̠]

(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kaˈse.o.lus/, [käˈs̬ɛːolus]

Noun

cāseolus m (genitive cāseolī); second declension

a small cheese

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cāseolus	cāseolī
Genitive	cāseolī	cāseolōrum
Dative	cāseolō	cāseolīs
Accusative	cāseolum	cāseolōs
Ablative	cāseolō	cāseolīs
Vocative	cāseole	cāseolī

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- ⇒ Italian: caciolino (diminutive)
North Italian:
- Ladin: ciajuel
- Lombard: cassœ̀u, kažœ̣l (Alpine)
- Romansch: chaschiel, caschiel, chaschöl
- Venetian: casuola
Occitano-Romance:
- Occitan:
  Gascon: cusòla, casuela
  
  Languedocien: casièu (Gévaudan)

References

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “caseolus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 456

Further reading

“caseolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
caseolus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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