arcula

Latin

Alternative forms

  • arcla (Vulgar Latin)

Etymology

arca (chest, box, coffer) +‎ -ula (diminutive suffix)

Pronunciation

Noun

arcula f (genitive arculae); first declension

  1. a small chest, box, casket or coffer; small perfume box or jewel casket
  2. a windchest of an organ

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative arcula arculae
genitive arculae arculārum
dative arculae arculīs
accusative arculam arculās
ablative arculā arculīs
vocative arcula arculae

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Byzantine Greek: ἄρκλα (árkla)
    • Greek: άρκλα (árkla)
    • Old Armenian: արկղ (arkł)
      • Armenian: արկղ (arkġ) (learned)

References

  • arcula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • arcula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • "arcula", 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)
  • arcula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • arcula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers