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English
Etymology
From Latin ancilla (“maid, slave-girl”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ancilla (plural ancillae)
- (rare) A maid.
1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 306:‘And pass me that towel,’ added Ada, but the ancilla was picking up coins she had dropped in her haste […]
- An auxiliary or accessory
2009 January 23, Ryo Okamoto et al., “An Entanglement Filter”, in Science, volume 323, number 5913, →DOI:The filter achieves this two-qubit filtering effect by using two ancilla photons as probes that detect whether or not the two input photons are in the desired states.
- (computing) An ancilla bit
- The circuit uses a single ancilla for each stabilizer generator.
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Latin
Etymology
From ancula (“maid”) + -lus (diminutive form).
Pronunciation
Noun
ancilla f (genitive ancillae); first declension
- maid, slave-girl
8 CE,
Ovid,
Fasti 6.551:
- cūr vetet ancillās accēdere, quaeritis?
- Why does she forbid slave-girls to approach, you ask?
405 CE,
Jerome,
Vulgate Lucas.1.38:
- Dīxit autem Maria : Ecce ancilla Dominī : fīat mihi secundum verbum tuum.
- And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord. Let it be to me according to your word.
Declension
First-declension noun.
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References
- “ancilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ancilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ancilla 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)
- ancilla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “ancilla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ancilla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin