vocula

The diminutive form of vōx (“a voice”, “a tone”, “a speech”, “a word”), formed as vōc- (stem of vōx) +‎ -ula (suffix forming feminine diminutives).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯oː.ku.la/, [ˈu̯oːkʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈvo.ku.la/, [ˈvɔːkulä]

vōcula f (genitive vōculae); first declension

1. (literally) a small or feeble voice
2. (transferred sense):
   1. a soft note or tone
   2. (denoting linguistic items):
      1. a little, petty speech
      2. a little word, particle

First-declension noun.

• vōculātiō

• English: vocular, vocule

• “vōcŭla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vocula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• vocula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.