apicula
Latin
Etymology
From apis (“bee”) + -cula (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈpi.ku.la/, [äˈpɪkʊɫ̪ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈpi.ku.la/, [äˈpiːkulä]
Noun
apicula f (genitive apiculae); first declension
- Diminutive of apis: a (little) bee
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | apicula | apiculae |
Genitive | apiculae | apiculārum |
Dative | apiculae | apiculīs |
Accusative | apiculam | apiculās |
Ablative | apiculā | apiculīs |
Vocative | apicula | apiculae |
Descendants
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: pecchia
- North Italian:
- Piedmontese: avija
- Lombard: avia, avich, avigia
- Romansch: avieul, avioul, aviöl m
- Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: abella
- Franco-Provençal: avelye, avulye, évelye; avilye
- Old Occitan: abelha
- Occitan: abelha
- → Middle French: abeille
- French: abeille
- → Esperanto: abelo
- Ido: abelo
- → Esperanto: abelo
- French: abeille
- Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: abella, apella
- Old Leonese: [Term?]
- Asturian: abeya
- Leonese: abeiya
- Mirandese: abeilha
- Old Portuguese: abella
- Galician: abella
- Portuguese: abelha
- Spanish: abeja
- Borrowings:
- → Interlingua: apicula
References
- “apicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- apicula 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)
- apicula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette