squilla

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪlə

Noun

squilla (plural squillas or squillae)

1. A dinner bell, (historical) a shrill little bell used to signal dinner for medieval monks.
2. (botany, obsolete) A squill, a sea onion.
3. (zoology) A mantis shrimp (Squilla mantis) or other members of the genus Squilla.
4. (zoology, obsolete) An insect resembling a mantis shrimp.

References

• Squilla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Squilla on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., "Bell".
• Henry Beauchamp Walters, Church Bells of England, page 3
• Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Music, Vol. 2, page 453
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "squilla, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1915

Italian

Verb

squilla

1. inflection of squillare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

Latin

Alternative forms

• scilla

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σκίλλα (skílla, “squill, Urginea maritima”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskʷil.la/,
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈskwil.la/,

Noun

squilla f (genitive squillae); first declension

1. (botany) The squill or sea onion.
2. A shrill little dinner bell used by medieval monks.
3. A kind of shrimp

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• → French: squille
• Galician: esquía, esquila
• Translingual: Squilla

References

• “squilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “squilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• squilla 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)