indicating smallness: globule
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u•le
(o̅o̅′lā),USA pronunciation n.
-ule,
- Plant Biologycaucho.
- Plant Biologya tree that produces caucho.
- Nahuatl ōlli caoutchouc
- Mexican Spanish (h)ule
- 1840–50
-ule,
- a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, originally diminutive nouns (capsule;
globule;
nodule) or noun derivatives of verbs (ligule).
- Latin -ulus, -ula, -ulum diminutive formative with nouns of the 1st and 2d declensions
*-el- (compare -cle1, -elle, -ole1); the deverbal suffix -ulus, etc. (compare cingulum, tumulus) is of distinct origin, originally - French
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'ule' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
-cle
- -ule
- Aschoff body
- Bok globule
- abaculus
- acervulus
- alula
- ampullula
- amygdule
- annulus
- antennule
- apiculus
- appendicle
- arugula
- atelier
- barbule
- barrel
- blastula
- brotula
- buckle
- calculus
- calendula
- calicle
- calyculus
- camisole
- campanula
- cannula
- canticle
- capitulum
- capsule
- carinula
- castellum
- caucho
- cellule
- chapter
- charter
- chartula
- chasuble
- chondrule
- chronicle
- cinch
- cingulum
- circle
- clausula
- clavola
- coagulum
- comatulid
- command module
- convolvulus
- copula