Modifications

-cellus (m. II), -cella (f. I), -ceUum cellum (n. II) ; -cillus (m. II), -cilla (f. I), -cillum (n. II) ; -culus (m. II), -cula (f. n, -culum (n. II) ; -ellus (m. II), -ella (f. I), -ellum (n. II) ; -illus (m. II), -illa (f. I), -illum (n. II) : diminutive ; e.g. ''cuticula'', cuticle (from ''cutis'', skin), ''lamella'', small plate, gill (from ''lamina'', plate, blade), ''pedicellus'', pedicel (from ''pes'', foot). The suffixes -ulus, etc., -ellus, etc., and -illus, etc., form compounds with nouns of the First Declension, -culus, etc., with those of the Third and Fourth Declensions, -cellus, etc., and -cillus, etc., with any declension.