securicula

From Latin secūricula.

securicula (plural securiculae)

1. A little axe, or a votive offering in that form.

From secūris +‎ cula.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [sɛ.kuːˈrɪ.kʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [se.kuˈriː.ku.la]

secūricula f (genitive secūriculae); first declension

1. little axe
2. a component of a certain kind of cramping looking like an axe, called in Ancient Greek πελεκῖνος (pelekînos)

First-declension noun.

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