libella
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin lībella, diminutive of libra (“balance”). Doublet of level and niveau.
Noun
editlibella (plural libellas)
- A small balance.
- A level, or levelling instrument.
French
editPronunciation
editVerb
editlibella
- third-person singular past historic of libeller
Latin
editEtymology
editPronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /liːˈbel.la/, [lʲiːˈbɛlːʲä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /liˈbel.la/, [liˈbɛlːä]
Noun
editlībella f (genitive lībellae); first declension
Usage notes
edit- Used to represent a minute portion of money.
Declension
editFirst-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | lībella | lībellae |
Genitive | lībellae | lībellārum |
Dative | lībellae | lībellīs |
Accusative | lībellam | lībellās |
Ablative | lībellā | lībellīs |
Vocative | lībella | lībellae |
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Vulgar Latin: *lībellus m
- Catalan: llivell m (now dialectal)
- Italian: livello m
- Old French: livel, nyviel, nevel, nivel m (the probable source of all n- forms via dissimilation)
- Romansch: livel m
- Piedmontese: livel m
- Sicilian: liveḍḍa f, liveḍḍu m
- Venetian: łiveło m
References
edit- “libella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “libella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- libella 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)
- libella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “libella”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “libella”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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