ancillula

From Latin ancillula, diminutive of ancilla (“handmaid”), a feminine diminutive of anculus (“servant”).

• IPA^(key): /ænˈsɪljʊlə/

ancillula (plural ancillulas)

1. A slave girl; a servant-girl.
   • 1962, Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire:

     I at once telephoned. The Shades were out, said the cheeky ancillula, an obnoxious little fan who came to cook for them on Sundays and no doubt dreamt of getting the old poet to cuddle her some wifeless day.

From ancilla +‎ -ula (diminutive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aŋˈkɪl.lʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [an̠ʲˈt͡ʃil.lu.la]

ancillula f (genitive ancillulae); first declension

1. diminutive of ancilla: young female slave or servant

First-declension noun.

• “ancillula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ancillula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ancillula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.