scilla

From Latin scilla, from Ancient Greek σκίλλα (skílla). Doublet of squill.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪlə/
• Rhymes: -ɪlə

scilla (plural scillas)

1. A plant of the genus Scilla; a squill.
2. (pharmacology) A bulb of Urginea scilla.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 2, subsection i:

     Scilla, or sea onyon, hot and dry in the third degree.

• Callis, lilacs

From Latin scilla, from Ancient Greek σκίλλα (skílla).

scilla f (plural scille)

1. squill (plant of the genus Scilla)

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈskɪl.la]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈʃil.la]

scilla f (genitive scillae); first declension

1. alternative form of squilla

First-declension noun.