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English
Pronunciation
Noun
scutella
- plural of scutellum
Noun
scutella (plural scutellae)
- A scutellum.
References
Latin
Etymology
From scutra (“tray, dish, platter”) + -la (diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
Noun
scutella f (genitive scutellae); first declension
- a small or shallow bowl, basin or dish
- a small salver or tray
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “scutella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “scutella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- scutella 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)
- scutella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “scutella”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin