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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin lībella, diminutive of libra (“balance”). Doublet of level and niveau.
Noun
libella (plural libellas)
- A small balance.
- A level, or levelling instrument.
French
Pronunciation
Verb
libella
- third-person singular past historic of libeller
Latin
Etymology
From lībra + -la.
Pronunciation
Noun
lībella f (genitive lībellae); first declension
- An as (the tenth part of a denarius)
- A level (builder's tool)
Usage notes
- Used to represent a minute portion of money.
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “libella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “libella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- libella 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)
- libella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “libella”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “libella”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin