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Latin
Etymology
From membrāna (“skin, membrane”) + -ula.
Pronunciation
Noun
membrānula f (genitive membrānulae); first declension
- a little skin or membrane
- (by extension) parchment
- (by extension, usually in the plural) document, something written on parchment
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- “membranula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “membranula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- membranula 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)
- membranula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.