Latin edit

Etymology edit

Diminutive of ansa

Noun edit

ānsula f (genitive ānsulae); first declension

  1. small handle (especially of a cup)

Declension edit

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative ānsula ānsulae
Genitive ānsulae ānsulārum
Dative ānsulae ānsulīs
Accusative ānsulam ānsulās
Ablative ānsulā ānsulīs
Vocative ānsula ānsulae

Descendants edit

  • Italian: asola

References edit

  • ansula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ansula 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)
  • ansula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.