assula

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Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of axis / assis (“axis, wheel, axle”).

Pronunciation

Noun

assula f (genitive assulae); first declension

  1. splinter, shaving, chip, shiver
  2. shingle

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative assula assulae
Genitive assulae assulārum
Dative assulae assulīs
Accusative assulam assulās
Ablative assulā assulīs
Vocative assula assulae

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Late Latin: astla (see there for further descendants)

References

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