rusticulus

rustĭcŭlus, a, um, adj. dim. [rusticus], rather rustic, somewhat coarse.

I.

Libellus, Mart. 10, 19:

nomen (Bissula),

Aus. Idyll. Carm. 7, 3.—

II.

As substt. *

A.

rustĭcŭ-lus, i, m., a little countryman, a little rustic, Cic. Sest. 38, 82.—

B.

rustĭcŭla, ae, f., a little heath-cock; (cf. rustica, s. v. rusticus, I. B. 2. b.), Plin. 10, 38, 54, § 111; Mart. 13, 76 in lemm.