ancilla
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin ancilla (“maid, slave-girl”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editancilla (plural ancillae)
- (rare) A maid.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 306:
- ‘And pass me that towel,’ added Ada, but the ancilla was picking up coins she had dropped in her haste […]
- An auxiliary or accessory
- 2009 January 23, Ryo Okamoto et al., “An Entanglement Filter”, in Science[1], volume 323, number 5913, :
- The filter achieves this two-qubit filtering effect by using two ancilla photons as probes that detect whether or not the two input photons are in the desired states.
- (computing) An ancilla bit
- The circuit uses a single ancilla for each stabilizer generator.
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editLatin
editEtymology
editFrom ancula (“maid”) + -lus (diminutive form).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /anˈkil.la/, [äŋˈkɪlːʲä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /anˈt͡ʃil.la/, [än̠ʲˈt͡ʃilːä]
Noun
editancilla f (genitive ancillae); first declension
- maid, slave-girl
- handmaiden
Declension
editFirst-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | ancilla | ancillae |
Genitive | ancillae | ancillārum |
Dative | ancillae | ancillīs |
Accusative | ancillam | ancillās |
Ablative | ancillā | ancillīs |
Vocative | ancilla | ancillae |
Derived terms
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editReferences
edit- “ancilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ancilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ancilla 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)
- ancilla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “ancilla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ancilla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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