Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Acicula

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

ACIC'ULA. A diminutive of ACUS; but as the word is applied to the bodkin which women wore in their hair (ACUS, 2.), the diminutive must be understood as expressing inferiority of material, rather than smallness of size, for such ornaments were made of wood and bone, as well as ivory and the precious metals. Cod. Theodos. iii. 16. 1.