sportula
English
editEtymology
editLatin sportula (“small basket, by extension a prize”)
Pronunciation
editNoun
editsportula (plural sportulae)
- (archaic) A gift or present; a prize.
- 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:
- To feed luxuriously, to frequent sports and theatres, to run for the sportula.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “sportula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
editLatin
editEtymology
editDiminutive of sporta (“basket”).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈspor.tu.la/, [ˈs̠pɔrt̪ʊɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈspor.tu.la/, [ˈspɔrt̪ulä]
Noun
editsportula f (genitive sportulae); first declension
Declension
editFirst-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | sportula | sportulae |
Genitive | sportulae | sportulārum |
Dative | sportulae | sportulīs |
Accusative | sportulam | sportulās |
Ablative | sportulā | sportulīs |
Vocative | sportula | sportulae |
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “sportula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sportula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sportula 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)
- sportula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “sportula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sportula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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