lenticula
See also: lentícula
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin lenticula. See lenticel. Doublet of lentil.
Noun edit
lenticula (plural lenticulas or lenticulae)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “lenticula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Diminutive of lēns.
Noun edit
lenticula f (genitive lenticulae); first declension
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | lenticula | lenticulae |
Genitive | lenticulae | lenticulārum |
Dative | lenticulae | lenticulīs |
Accusative | lenticulam | lenticulās |
Ablative | lenticulā | lenticulīs |
Vocative | lenticula | lenticulae |
Descendants edit
- Asturian: llenteya, lentilla (through French)
- Catalan: llentilla, lentícula (borrowing), lentilla (through French)
- English: lenticule (borrowing), lentil (through Old French)
- French: lentille
- Galician: lentella, lentixa, lantinxa
- Italian: lenticchia
- Occitan: lentilha
- Portuguese: lentilha, lentícula (borrowing), lenticela
- Romanian: lentilă (through French)
- Sicilian: linticchia
- Spanish: lenteja, lentilla (through French)
References edit
- “lenticula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lenticula 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)
- lenticula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.