situla

See also: sítula

English

an Apulian situla (English)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin situla.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪtjuːlə/

Noun

situla (plural situlae or situlas)

1. (archaeology) A deep ceramic vase with a wide opening.

Related terms

• situla art
• situla culture
• situlate
• situliform

Translations

archaeology: deep ceramic vase with a wide opening

• Finnish: ruukku (fi)

Further reading

• situla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• situal

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin situla (“vessel for water”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of secchia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.tu.la/
• Rhymes: -itula
• Hyphenation: sì‧tu‧la

Noun

situla f (plural situle)

1. (archaeology) a kind of metallic vase

Further reading

• situla in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• saluti

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.tu.la/, [ˈs̠ɪt̪ʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈsi.tu.la/, [ˈsiːt̪ulä]

Etymology 1

Maybe from the same Proto-Indo-European root common to Lithuanian siẽtas (“sieve”) and Middle Irish sithlad (“the act of sieving”).

Alternative forms

• situlus (Classical Latin)
• situlum (Medieval Latin)

Noun

situla f (genitive situlae); first declension

1. a vessel used to hold water
   1. a bucket or pail, especially one used to draw water from a well
   2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) a vessel for holding holy water
   3. (Medieval Latin) a measure of capacity for liquids
2. a voting urn (for drawing lots or holding voting tablets); loosely, a ballot box
   1. a basin, jar, urn, vel sim. on a monument

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	situla	situlae
Genitive	situlae	situlārum
Dative	situlae	situlīs
Accusative	situlam	situlās
Ablative	situlā	situlīs
Vocative	situla	situlae

Synonyms

• (vessel for holding water, bucket, pail): hama
• (voting urn): sitella

Derived terms

• situlārius
• situlifōrmis

Descendants

See also siclus and sitella.

• Vulgar Latin:
  • *sicla (see there for further descendants)
• Ancient borrowings:
  • → Byzantine Greek: σίτλα (sítla) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Middle High German: sīdel
    • German: Seidel
      • Czech: žejdlík
• Later borrowings:
  • → English: situla
  • → French: situle
  • → Italian: situla
  • → Portuguese: sítula
  • → Romanian: situlă
  • → Spanish: sítula

References

• “sĭtŭla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sĭtŭlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• SITULA 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)
• SITULUS 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)
• sĭtŭla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,450/1.
• sĭtŭlus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.: “1,450/1”
• “situla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “situla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “situla” on page 1,775/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• “situlus” on page 1,775/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “situla”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 974/2

Etymology 2

Regularly declined forms of situlum, a neuter Mediaeval by-form of the feminine situla, above.

Noun

situla n

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of situlum