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English
Etymology
Latin sportula (“small basket, by extension a prize”)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈspɔː(ɹ)tjʊlə/, /ˈspɔː(ɹ)t͡ʃələ/
Noun
sportula (plural sportulae)
- (archaic) A gift or present; a prize.
1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London:To feed luxuriously, to frequent sports and theatres, to run for the sportula.
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Diminutive of sporta (“basket”).
Pronunciation
Noun
sportula f (genitive sportulae); first declension
- small basket, especially one used to distribute gifts to clients
- gift
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “sportula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sportula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sportula 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)
- sportula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “sportula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sportula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin