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-cule

1
  1. variant of -cle 1:

    animalcule; molecule; reticule.



-cule

2
  1. variant of -cle 2:

    ridicule.

-cule

suffix forming nouns

  1. indicating smallness

    animalcule

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of -cule1

From French, from Latin -culus, -cula, -culum; -cle 1

Origin of -cule2

From French, from Latin -culum, -cula; -cle 2
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of -cule1

from Latin -culus, diminutive suffix; compare -cle
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Example Sentences

Xavi is a 'Cule' to the bone, a man who bleeds Barcelona, and it breaks his heart to hear his own children tell him at their school they are saying he is not a good coach.

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The talk, absurd at inception, had been that here was an anti-Madridista, a culé who resented Real and everything they represented, but look at his team in Wales last week – no Barcelona player in it – and look at his squad, packed with players from the Bernabéu.

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In theory, the problem hinges on whether you understand the word to be minus plus the diminutive suffix cule, as in molecule, or mini attached to scule – meaning who knows quite what.

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As time went by, we got regular actors involved, like Paul Valentine, who played the jester Motley, and Michael Cule, who played the monk, Brother Mace.

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A number of the nucleotides in a transfer-RNA molecule are modified, that is, their structure is altered chemically after they have been incorporated into the mole­cule; most often a methyl group is add­ed to the nucleotide at some position on either the base or the sugar.

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