subucula
English
editEtymology
editNoun
editsubucula (plural subuculae)
- (historical) A man's undergarment or shirt.
- (historical) In the early English church, a kind of cassock worn under the alb.
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom sub- + *uō (“to put on”) + -cula (instrument noun suffix). Compare indūcula. The root is attested in the compound verbs induō and exuō.
Noun
editsubūcula f (genitive subūculae); first declension
- a man's undergarment, a shirt (worn under a tunic etc.)
Declension
editFirst-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | subūcula | subūculae |
Genitive | subūculae | subūculārum |
Dative | subūculae | subūculīs |
Accusative | subūculam | subūculās |
Ablative | subūculā | subūculīs |
Vocative | subūcula | subūculae |
References
edit- “subucula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “subucula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- subucula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “subucula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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