scutella
See also: Scutella and Scutellà
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɛlə
Noun
scutella
- plural of scutellum
Noun
scutella (plural scutellae)
- A scutellum.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 scutella in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Latin
Etymology
From scutra (“tray, dish, platter”) + -la (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /skuˈtel.la/, [s̠kʊˈt̪ɛlːʲä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /skuˈtel.la/, [skuˈt̪ɛlːä]
Noun
scutella f (genitive scutellae); first declension
- a small or shallow bowl, basin or dish
- a small salver or tray
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | scutella | scutellae |
| Genitive | scutellae | scutellārum |
| Dative | scutellae | scutellīs |
| Accusative | scutellam | scutellās |
| Ablative | scutellā | scutellīs |
| Vocative | scutella | scutellae |
Descendants
- Italo-Dalmatian
- Italian: scodella
- Sicilian: scudedda
- Friulian: scudiele
- Old French: escuele
- French: écuelle
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: escudella
- Occitan: escudèla
- Romansch: stgadella
- Venetian: scuèƚa, scudèla
- West Iberian
- Asturian: escudiella
- Old Portuguese: escudela
- Galician: escudela
- Portuguese: escudela
- Old Spanish: escudiella
- Spanish: escudilla
- → Old Armenian: սկուտղ (skutł) (see there for further descendants)
- → Proto-Brythonic: *skudell (see there for further descendants)
- → Proto-West Germanic: *skutilā (see there for further descendants)
- → Serbo-Croatian: zdjela, zdela, škodela (regional), škidela (regional)
- → Slovene: skleda, skodela
References
- “scutella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “scutella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- scutella 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)
- scutella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “scutella”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin