{"id":1,"date":"2021-08-16T00:26:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T00:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.mightywords.co\/?p=1"},"modified":"2023-08-09T22:15:54","modified_gmt":"2023-08-09T22:15:54","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.mightywords.co\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Latin words ending in \/-\u0259s\u0259l\/"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>How do you spell \/\u02c8\u00e4r\u02ccb\u0259s\u0259l\/, a word from Latin that means: &#8220;a dwarf tree or shrub&#8221;? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you guessed &#8220;arbustle&#8221;, I don&#8217;t blame you. There are plenty of common English words that end with &#8220;-ustle&#8221; (bustle, hustle, rustle&#8230;). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that none of those words have passed through Latin. However, arbuscle comes from the Latin root &#8220;arbuscula&#8221;, the diminutive of &#8220;arbor&#8221; meaning &#8220;tree&#8221;. It&#8217;s one of a group of Latin-derived words that are smaller versions of something, or small parts of something. Other examples:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;opuscle&#8221;, a small or petty work (from &#8220;opusculum&#8221;, diminutive of Latin &#8220;opus&#8221; meaning &#8220;work&#8221;) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;corpuscle&#8221;, a living cell (from &#8220;corpusculum&#8221;, diminutive of Latin &#8220;corpus&#8221; meaning &#8220;body&#8221;) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;crepuscle&#8221;, meaning twilight (from &#8220;crepusculum&#8221;, diminutive of Latin &#8220;creper&#8221; meaning &#8220;dark&#8221;)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>So how do you differentiate between &#8220;-ustle&#8221; and &#8220;uscle&#8221;? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For Latin nouns that mean a smaller part of something, the word will end in &#8220;-uscle&#8221; rather than &#8220;-ustle&#8221;. Meanwhile, words ending in &#8220;-ustle&#8221; are usually verbs. Be careful not to use this for adjectives&#8211;those are more likely to end in &#8220;-al&#8221;, such as &#8220;pertussal&#8221;, which is also from Latin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a bee, try asking if a word is from the Latin diminutive suffix &#8220;-usculum&#8221; or &#8220;-uscula&#8221;. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you spell \/\u02c8\u00e4r\u02ccb\u0259s\u0259l\/, a word from Latin that means: &#8220;a dwarf tree or shrub&#8221;? If you guessed &#8220;arbustle&#8221;, I don&#8217;t blame you. There are plenty of common English words that end with &#8220;-ustle&#8221; (bustle, hustle, rustle&#8230;). Note that none of those words have passed through Latin. However, arbuscle comes from the Latin root&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suffixes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mightywords.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mightywords.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mightywords.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mightywords.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mightywords.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mightywords.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":211,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mightywords.co\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mightywords.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mightywords.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mightywords.co\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}