cistula

From Latin cistula.

cistula (plural cistulae)

1. A little box or chest.
   • 1829, The London Encyclopaedia, page 264:

     Let us now, however, point out how to make a catoptric cistula to represent the objects within it prodigiously multiplied, and diffused through a vast space.

From cista (“a trunk, a chest, a casket”) +‎ -ula (diminutive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈkɪs.tʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃis.t̪u.la]

cistula f (genitive cistulae); first declension

1. a basket
   • c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitryon:

     Ubi patera nunc est? —In cistulā.

     Where is the dish now? —In the basket.

2. diminutive of cista: a small chest

First-declension noun.

• cistella

• “cistula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "cistula", 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)
• cistula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.