Etymology

From cāseus (“cheese”) +‎ -ulus (diminutive ending)Category:Latin terms suffixed with -ulus#CASEOLUS.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kaːˈse.ɔ.ɫʊs]Category:Latin 4-syllable words#CASEOLUSCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#CASEOLUS
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kaˈs̬ɛː.o.lus]Category:Latin 4-syllable words#CASEOLUSCategory:Latin terms with IPA pronunciation#CASEOLUS

Noun

cāseolus m (genitive cāseolī)Category:Latin lemmas#CASEOLUSCategory:Latin nouns#CASEOLUSCategory:Latin second declension nouns#CASEOLUSCategory:Latin masculine nouns in the second declension#CASEOLUSCategory:Latin entries with incorrect language header#CASEOLUSCategory:Latin masculine nouns#CASEOLUSCategory:Pages with entries#CASEOLUSCategory:Pages with 1 entry#CASEOLUS; second declension

1. a small cheese

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.