viticula

Latin

Alternative forms

• vītecula

Etymology

From vītis (“vine”) +‎ -cula (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u̯iːˈti.ku.la/, [u̯iːˈt̪ɪkʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /viˈti.ku.la/, [viˈt̪iːkulä]

Noun

vīticula f (genitive vīticulae); first declension

1. little vine
2. tendril (of a plant)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vīticula	vīticulae
Genitive	vīticulae	vīticulārum
Dative	vīticulae	vīticulīs
Accusative	vīticulam	vīticulās
Ablative	vīticulā	vīticulīs
Vocative	vīticula	vīticulae

Descendants

(Some reflecting the Late Latin variant vītīcula whence also a dissimilated *vĭtīcula)

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: viticchio
  • Neapolitan: viticchia
  • Sicilian: viticchiu
• Padanian:
  • Ladin: vadadla
  • ⇒ Piedmontese: alviria
  • Romansch: vadeglia, vadaglia
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: villo
  • Old French: vedille, veille, verille
    • French: vrille
  • Gascon: videlha, vedilha
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: vidía
  • Spanish: vedija

References

• “viticula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• viticula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “vīticula”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 14: U–Z, page 555