-cle 1
a suffix found in French loanwords of Latin origin, originally diminutive nouns, and later in adaptations of words borrowed directly from Latin or in Neo-Latin coinages: article; conventicle; corpuscle; particle.
[ -culus, -cula, -culum, var. of -ulus -ULE with nouns of the 3d, 4th and 5th declensions, usually with the same gender as the base noun ]
-cle 2
a suffix found in French loanwords of Latin origin, later in adaptations of words borrowed directly from Latin; in Latin, this suffix formed from verbs nouns that denoted a place appropriate to the action of the verb ( cubicle, receptacle ) or a means by which the action is performed ( vehicle ).
[ -culum, -cula -tlom, * -tla ]