facula
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin facula (“little torch”).
Pronunciation
Noun
facula (plural faculae)
- (astronomy) A bright spot or patch between sunspots.
- c. 1933-1934, Hugh MacDiarmid, On a Raised Beach:
- Glaucous, hoar, enfouldered, cyathiform, / Making mere faculae of the sun and moon […]
Translations
region on the sun's surface
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Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Diminutive from fax (“torch”) + -ula.
Pronunciation
Noun
facula f (genitive faculae); first declension
- small torch
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | facula | faculae |
| Genitive | faculae | faculārum |
| Dative | faculae | faculīs |
| Accusative | faculam | faculās |
| Ablative | faculā | faculīs |
| Vocative | facula | faculae |
Descendants
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: falla (“effigy for burning, bonfire”)
- Romanian: fachie
- Romansch: facla
- → Andalusian Arabic: فَلْيَة (falya), فَلْيَا (falyā)
- Vulgar Latin: *faccula
- → Proto-West Germanic: *fakkulā (see there for further descendants)
- Vulgar Latin: *facucula
- Vulgar Latin: *fascula (crossed with fascis (“bundle”))
- Vulgar Latin: *flaccula
- →? Albanian: flakë (“flame”)
- → Bulgarian: факла (fakla)
- → Romanian: faclă (or from Greek)
- → Bulgarian: факлия (faklija)
- → Catalan: fàcula
- → English: facula
- → Greek: φάκλα (fákla)
- → Romanian: faclă (or from Bulgarian)
- → Hungarian: fáklya
- → Italian: facola
- → Portuguese: fácula
- → Serbo-Croatian: faklja
- → Spanish: fácula
- → Swedish: fackla
References
- “facula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “facula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- facula 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)
- facula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- facula in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016