opusculum

Borrowed from Latin opusculum.

• (US) IPA^(key): /oʊˈpʌs.kjuː.ləm/

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• Hyphenation: o‧pus‧cu‧lum

opusculum (plural opuscula)

1. An opuscule; a short work.

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /oˈpus.ku.lum/, [ɔˈpʊs̠kʊɫ̪ʊ̃ˑ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /oˈpus.ku.lum/, [oˈpuskulum]

opusculum n (genitive opusculī); second declension

1. Diminutive of opus
   1. a minor work, (especially) of literature
      1. (understatement) as a modest description of a large literary work
   2. (New Latin) an article (also in a periodical); an entry

Second-declension noun (neuter).

• “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 with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• opusculum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.