asciola

Latin

Etymology

From ascia (axe) +‎ -ola (diminutive ending). Attested in Isidore's Etymologiae.[1]

Noun

asciola f (genitive asciolae); first declension (Late Latin)

  1. adze (cutting tool)

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative asciola asciolae
genitive asciolae asciolārum
dative asciolae asciolīs
accusative asciolam asciolās
ablative asciolā asciolīs
vocative asciola asciolae

Descendants

  • North Italian:
    • Piedmontese: assul
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: aixola
    • Franco-Provençal: essoula
    • Old Bourguignon: assoule
    • Old Franc-Comtois: essole
    • Occitan: aissòla
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Aragonese: ixuela, xuela, axuela, axuelo, xuelo
      Ribagorçan: ixuela, eixola, eixol, aixuela
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: *aixoa
      • Galician: aixola, aixó, aixoa, anxola, eixola, eixoa
      • Portuguese: enxó, aixó, eixó (Trás-os-Montes), anxó (Entre Douro e Minho), inxó (dialectal)
    • Old Spanish: açuela
    • Basque: aizkora

References

  1. ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “asciola”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 63