Meanings
- obsoleteA very small amount.
[…] that a brave, vigorous, and consistent forwardness, guarded by just such a quantulum of tact as may save it from being signally offensive, will always ensure a certain degree of advancement; […]
1832, The Quarterly Review (London), volume 98, page 1981 more example
[…] with a little French and a little Spanish, a quantulum of wayside knowledge gleaned from lecture-rooms, and a smattering of half a dozen branches of science, that might as well have been studied at a country academy.
1845, Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, The North American Review, volume 60, page 52
Origin
- Latinquantulum
- Englishquantulum
From Latin quantulum.
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