navicula
See also: Navicula
English edit
Etymology edit
Learned borrowing from Latin nāvicula.
Noun edit
navicula (plural naviculae)
- (Christianity) A thurible in the shape of a boat.
See also edit
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From nāvis (“ship”) + -cula (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /naːˈu̯i.ku.la/, [näːˈu̯ɪkʊɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /naˈvi.ku.la/, [näˈviːkulä]
Noun edit
nāvicula f (genitive nāviculae); first declension
- Diminutive of nāvis: a small ship
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | nāvicula | nāviculae |
Genitive | nāviculae | nāviculārum |
Dative | nāviculae | nāviculīs |
Accusative | nāviculam | nāviculās |
Ablative | nāviculā | nāviculīs |
Vocative | nāvicula | nāviculae |
References edit
- “navicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “navicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- navicula 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)
- navicula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.