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Latin
Etymology
Feminine counterpart of vitulus (“a calf”). Whether the word for a string instrument is from this source is quite uncertain, but may be related to strings being made from the intestines of cattle; may also be a borrowing from Frankish *fiþulā (“violin, fiddle”).
Pronunciation
Noun
vitula f (genitive vitulae); first declension
- Latin: the Roman goddess of joy and victory. See (Vitulatio)
- a young cow, a female calf, a heifer
- (Medieval Latin) a stringed musical instrument, probably the viola
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “1. vĭtŭla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- VITULA 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)
- “vitula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- 1 vĭtŭla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “1,687/1”
- “uitula¹” on page 2,081/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)