navicula

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English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin nāvicula.

Noun

navicula (plural naviculae)

  1. (Christianity) A thurible in the shape of a boat.

See also

Latin

Etymology

From nāvis (“ship”) +‎ -cula (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

Noun

nāvicula f (genitive nāviculae); first declension

  1. diminutive of nāvis: a small ship

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative nāvicula nāviculae
genitive nāviculae nāviculārum
dative nāviculae nāviculīs
accusative nāviculam nāviculās
ablative nāviculā nāviculīs
vocative nāvicula nāviculae

References

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