squilla
See also: Squilla
English
Squilla mantis
Etymology
From Latin squilla, from Ancient Greek σκίλλα (skílla).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪlə
Noun
squilla (plural squillas or squillae)
- A dinner bell, (historical) a shrill little bell used to signal dinner for medieval monks.
- (botany, obsolete) The squill, the sea onion.
- (zoology) The mantis shrimp (Squilla mantis) or other members of the genus Squilla.
- (zoology, obsolete) An insect resembling the mantis shrimp.
References
''Squilla'' on Wikipedia.Wikipedia 
''Squilla'' on Wikispecies.Wikispecies - Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., "Bell".
- Henry Beauchamp Walters, Church Bells of England, page 3
- Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Music, Vol. 2, page 453
- Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "squilla, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1915
Italian
Verb
squilla
- inflection of squillare:
- third-person singular present indicative
- second-person singular imperative
Latin
Alternative forms
- scilla
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek σκίλλα (skílla, “squill, Urginea maritima”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈskʷil.la/, [ˈs̠kʷɪlːʲä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈskwil.la/, [ˈskwilːä]
Noun
squilla f (genitive squillae); first declension
- (botany) The squill or sea onion.
- A shrill little dinner bell used by medieval monks.
- A kind of shrimp
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | squilla | squillae |
| Genitive | squillae | squillārum |
| Dative | squillae | squillīs |
| Accusative | squillam | squillās |
| Ablative | squillā | squillīs |
| Vocative | squilla | squillae |
Descendants
- → French: squille
- Galician: esquía, esquila
- Translingual: Squilla
References
- “squilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “squilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- squilla 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)