barbula
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See also: Barbula
Latin
Etymology
From barba (“beard”) + -ula (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈbar.bu.la/,
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbar.bu.la/,
Noun
barbula f (genitive barbulae); first declension
- diminutive of barba (“beard”)
Declension
First-declension noun.
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Descendants
- English: barbule
- French: barbelé
- Italian: barbula
- Old French: barbel
- Romanian: barbur (“cutting-edge”)
References
- “barbula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “barbula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- barbula 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)
- barbula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “barbula”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray