sportula
English
Etymology
Latin sportula (“small basket, by extension a prize”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈspɔː(ɹ)tjʊlə/, /ˈspɔː(ɹ)t͡ʃələ/
Noun
sportula (plural sportulae)
- (archaic) A gift or present; a prize.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), 6th edition, London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, OCLC 21766567:
- To feed luxuriously, to frequent sports and theatres, to run for the sportula.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 sportula in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- postural, pulsator
Latin
Etymology
Diminutive of sporta (“basket”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈspor.tu.la/, [ˈs̠pɔrt̪ʊɫ̪ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈspor.tu.la/, [ˈspɔrt̪ulä]
Noun
sportula f (genitive sportulae); first declension
- small basket, especially one used to distribute gifts to clients
- gift
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sportula | sportulae |
| Genitive | sportulae | sportulārum |
| Dative | sportulae | sportulīs |
| Accusative | sportulam | sportulās |
| Ablative | sportulā | sportulīs |
| Vocative | sportula | sportulae |
Descendants
- → Finnish: sportteli
- → German: Sportel
- → Swedish: sportel
References
- “sportula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sportula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sportula 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)
- sportula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “sportula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sportula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin