aculeolus

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

ăcūlĕŏlus, i, m. dim. [aculeus],

a little needle or pin : aculeolos in cochleare tulit, an old reading in Mart. 8, 71, where now acu levius vix cochleare, is read.