facula
See also: Facula
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin facula (“little torch”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfækjʊlə/
Noun
facula (plural faculae)
- (astronomy) A bright spot or patch between sunspots.
- c. 1933-1934, Hugh MacDiarmid, On a Raised Beach
- Glaucous, hoar, enfouldered, cyathiform, / Making mere faculae of the sun and moon […]
- c. 1933-1934, Hugh MacDiarmid, On a Raised Beach
Anagrams
- faucal
Latin
Etymology
Diminutive from fax (“torch”) + -ula.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈfa.ku.la/, [ˈfäkʊɫ̪ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈfa.ku.la/, [ˈfäːkulä]
Noun
facula f (genitive faculae); first declension
- small torch
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | facula | faculae |
Genitive | faculae | faculārum |
Dative | faculae | faculīs |
Accusative | faculam | faculās |
Ablative | faculā | faculīs |
Vocative | facula | faculae |
Descendants
- Vulgar Latin: *facla
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: falla (“effigy for burning, bonfire”)
- Romanian: fachie
- Romansch: facla
- → Old High German: faccala, vackel
- Alemannic German: Fachele
- German: Fackel
- → Bulgarian: факел (fakel), факла (fakla)
- → Macedonian: факел (fakel)
- → Russian: факел (fakel)
- Luxembourgish: Fakel
- Rhine Franconian:
- Pennsylvania German: Fackel
- → Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: бакља
- Latin: baklja
- → Slovak: fakľa
- → Slovene: bakla
- Old Occitan:
- Vulgar Latin: *facucla
- Old Portuguese:
- Portuguese: fagulha (“spark”), faúlha
- Old Portuguese:
- Vulgar Latin: *fascla (crossed with fascis (“bundle”))
- Old Portuguese: facha
- Galician: facha, facho
- Portuguese: facha, facho
- Old Spanish: facha
- Spanish: hacha
- Old Portuguese: facha
- Vulgar Latin: *flacula
- Italian: fiaccola
- → Maltese: fjakkla
- Romanian: flacără (“flame”)
- Italian: fiaccola
- → Albanian: flakë (“flame”) (possibly)
- → Bulgarian: факла (fakla)
- → Romanian: faclă (or from Greek)
- → Bulgarian: факлия (faklija)
- → Romanian: făclie (or a diminutive of faclă, or from Serbo-Croatian)
- → Catalan: fàcula
- → Dutch: fakkel
- → English: facula
- → Greek: φάκλα (fákla)
- → Romanian: faclă (or from Bulgarian)
- → Hungarian: fáklya
- → Italian: facola
- → Low German: Fachel
- → Old English: fæcele
- → Portuguese: fácula
- → Serbo-Croatian: faklja
- → Romanian: faclă (or from Bulgarian)
- → Polish: fakła (Podhale dialect; alterntively from German)
- → Romanian: faclă (or from Bulgarian)
- → Spanish: fácula
- → Swedish: fackla
References
- “facula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “facula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- facula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- facula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- facula in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016