scandula

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Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *sked- (“to split, scatter”), from *sek- (“to cut”).

Noun

scandula f (genitive scandulae); first declension

  1. roof-shingle
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative scandula scandulae
Genitive scandulae scandulārum
Dative scandulae scandulīs
Accusative scandulam scandulās
Ablative scandulā scandulīs
Vocative scandula scandulae
Descendants

See also scindula.

Etymology 2

Noun

scandula f (genitive scandulae); first declension

  1. (Late Latin) Alternative form of sandala (“type of grain”)
Descendants

References

Further reading

  • “scandula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • scandula 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)
  • scandula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “scandula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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