scilla

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English

Etymology

From Latin scilla, from Ancient Greek σκίλλα (skílla). Doublet of squill.

Pronunciation

Noun

scilla (plural scillas)

  1. A plant of the genus Scilla; a squill.
  2. (pharmacology) A bulb of Urginea scilla.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior , The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 2, subsection i:
      Scilla, or sea onyon, hot and dry in the third degree.

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Italian

Etymology

From Latin scilla, from Ancient Greek σκίλλα (skílla).

Noun

scilla f (plural scille)

  1. squill (plant of the genus Scilla)

Latin

Pronunciation

Noun

scilla f (genitive scillae); first declension

  1. alternative form of squilla

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative scilla scillae
genitive scillae scillārum
dative scillae scillīs
accusative scillam scillās
ablative scillā scillīs
vocative scilla scillae