-ule

-ule

suff.
Small one:valvule.
[French, from Latin-ulus, -ula, -ulum,diminutive suff.]
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright © 2016 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

-ule

suffix forming nouns
indicating smallness:globule.
[from Latin-ulus, diminutive suffix]
Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1994, 1998, 2000, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2011, 2014

-ule

a suffix occurring in loanwords from Latin, orig. diminutive nouns (capsule; globule; nodule) or noun derivatives of verbs (ligule).
[< French < Latin-ulus, -ula, -ulum diminutive formative with nouns of the 1st and 2d declensions «*-el- (compare-cle1,-elle,-ole1)]
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