pălumbŭlus — Lewis & Short
pălumbŭlus, i, m.dim.id.,
I little wood-pigeon, little dove, as a term of endearment (post-class.):
teneo te meum palumbulum, meum passerem,App. M. 10, p. 249, 16; id. ib. 8, p. 213, 33.