ansula

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Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of ansa

Noun

ānsula f (genitive ānsulae); first declension

  1. small handle (especially of a cup)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

  • Italian: asola

References

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