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English
Noun
subula (plural subulae)
- (botany) A fine sharp point.
1870, Berthold Seemann, Journal of Botany, British and Foreign, volume 8, page 392:Leaves very densely crowded, upper extended into a subula, toothed at apex, wings recurved in upper part.
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *syuh₁-dʰleh₂, which consists of the root *syuh₁- (“sew”) and the suffix *-dʰlom (“tool suffix”). This becomes the Latin derivation suō (“to sew”) + -bula.
Cognate to Russian шило (šilo, “awl”) and Czech šídlo (“awl”), and to Proto-Germanic *siwjaną (“to sew”).
Noun
sūbula f (genitive sūbulae); first declension
- shoemaker's awl
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
References
- “subula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- "subula", 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)
- subula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 600