orcula

From orca +‎ -ula (diminutive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɔr.kʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɔr.ku.la]

orcula f (genitive orculae); first declension

1. diminutive of orca: a small tun, a cask
   • 234 BCE – 149 BCE, Cato the Elder, De agri cultura 117:

     In orculam calcato. Manibus siccis, cum uti voles, sumito.

     Press them out into an earthenware vessel and take them out with dry hands when you wish to serve them.

First-declension noun.

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