pugnicula

From pugna (“a fight, battle”) +‎ -cula (diminutive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /puɡˈni.ku.la/, [pʊŋˈnɪkʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /puɲˈɲi.ku.la/, [puɲˈɲiːkulä]

pugnicula f (genitive pugniculae); first declension

1. diminutive of pugna: a slight contest, a skirmish

First-declension noun.

• “pugnicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pugnicula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.