lenticula
See also: lentícula
English
Etymology
From Latin . See lenticel. Doublet of lentil.
Noun
lenticula (plural lenticulas or lenticulae)
- (medicine) A kind of eruption upon the skin; lentigo; freckle.
- A small lens.
- (botany) A lenticel.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lenticula in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Latin
Etymology
Diminutive of lēns.
Noun
lenticula f (genitive lenticulae); first declension
- lentil
- freckle
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | lenticula | lenticulae |
| Genitive | lenticulae | lenticulārum |
| Dative | lenticulae | lenticulīs |
| Accusative | lenticulam | lenticulās |
| Ablative | lenticulā | lenticulīs |
| Vocative | lenticula | lenticulae |
Descendants
- Asturian: llenteya, lentilla (through French)
- Catalan: llentilla, lentícula (borrowing), lentilla (through French)
- English: lenticule (borrowing), lentil (through Old French)
- French: lentille
- Galician: lentella, lentixa, lantinxa
- Italian: lenticchia
- Occitan: lentilha
- Portuguese: lentilha, lentícula (borrowing), lenticela
- Romanian: lentilă (through French)
- Sicilian: linticchia
- Spanish: lenteja, lentilla (through French)
References
- “lenticula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lenticula 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)
- lenticula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette