fiscella

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin fiscella.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /fiʃˈʃɛl.la/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlla
  • Hyphenation: fi‧scèl‧la

Noun

fiscella f (plural fiscelle)

  1. a conical wicker basket used to drain fresh ricotta
    Synonym: (made of plastic material suitable for food use) fuscella

Descendants

  • → Maltese: bixkilla, bexkilla (dialectal)

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

From fiscina (“small wicker basket”) +‎ -la (feminine diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

fiscella f (genitive fiscellae); first declension

  1. small wicker basket

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative fiscella fiscellae
Genitive fiscellae fiscellārum
Dative fiscellae fiscellīs
Accusative fiscellam fiscellās
Ablative fiscellā fiscellīs
Vocative fiscella fiscellae

References

  • “fiscella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “fiscella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • fiscella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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