pergula

See also: pérgula

English

Noun

pergula (plural pergulas or pergulae)

Alternative form of pergola

Anagrams

earplug, graupel, plaguer

Latin

Etymology

The origin is uncertain. Has been compared to Lithuanian pérgas (“canoe”), Old Church Slavonic прагъ (pragŭ, “doorpost”), Old Norse forkr (“bar, stick”), but the meanings are too divergent.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈper.ɡu.la/, [ˈpɛrɡʊɫ̪ä]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈper.ɡu.la/, [ˈpɛrɡulä]

Noun

pergula f (genitive pergulae); first declension

A booth, stall or shop in front of a house
A hut or hovel
A brothel
An arbour
A framework supporting a vine or plant (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	pergula	pergulae
Genitive	pergulae	pergulārum
Dative	pergulae	pergulīs
Accusative	pergulam	pergulās
Ablative	pergulā	pergulīs
Vocative	pergula	pergulae

Descendants

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: pergurã
- Romanian: pârghie (with early syncope of /ŭ/)
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: pe̢rtya, pe̢rkła
Ibero-Romance:
- Leonese: piérɣola, pjẹ́lɣora
- Portuguese: prégua
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: pergola, préula (Lazio)
  - → English: pergola
- Neapolitan: pérrua (Bari)
- Sicilian: prèula
Rhaeto-Romance:
- Friulian: piergule
Vulgar Latin:
- *bercula (a sort of voicing metathesis)
  - Franco-Provençal: bergola, be̢rχła, be̢rχa, be̢rχła, be̢rϑa, bé̢rfa, be̢rkła, berclla, bé̢rtsẹ
  - Lombard: bérko̢la (Ticino)
Borrowings:
- → Albanian: pjergull
- → Hebrew: פרגולה‎ (pergula)
- → Italian: pergula
- → Portuguese: pérgola, pérgula
- → Spanish: pérgola

References

“pergula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“pergula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
pergula 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)
pergula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
“pergula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
“pergula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 460
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “pĕrgŭla”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 8: Patavia–Pix, page 240