"pectiniculum" meaning in Latin

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Noun

IPA: /pekteˈniklu/, /pekteˈneklu/
Etymology: From pectin- (“comb”) + -culum (diminutive suffix). Etymology templates: {{af|la|pecten|-culus|alt1=pectin-|alt2=-culum|pos2=diminutive suffix|t1=comb}} pectin- (“comb”) + -culum (diminutive suffix) Head templates: {{head|la|noun|g=n|head=*pectinī̆culum}} *pectinī̆culum n, {{tlb|la|PIWR}} (Proto-Italo-Western-Romance) Forms: pectinī̆culum [canonical, neuter], no-table-tags [table-tags], /pekteˈniklu [nominative, singular], -e-/ [nominative, singular], /pekteˈnikla [nominative, plural], -e-/ [nominative, plural], /pekteˈniklu [oblique, singular], -e-/ [oblique, singular], /pekteˈnikla [oblique, plural], -e-/ [oblique, plural]
  1. (literally) little comb Tags: Proto-Italo-Western-Romance, literally, reconstruction
    Sense id: en-pectiniculum-la-noun-rj9e5gf2
  2. pubis, pubic hair Tags: Proto-Italo-Western-Romance, reconstruction
    Sense id: en-pectiniculum-la-noun-JggP0uB9 Categories (other): Latin entries with incorrect language header, Latin terms suffixed with -culus, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Proto-Italo-Western-Romance Disambiguation of Latin entries with incorrect language header: 7 93 Disambiguation of Latin terms suffixed with -culus: 13 87 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 5 95 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 5 95 Disambiguation of Proto-Italo-Western-Romance: 8 92
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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.