facula

See also: Facula

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin facula (“little torch”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfækjʊlə/

Noun

facula (plural faculae)

(astronomy) A bright spot or patch between sunspots.
- c. 1933-1934, Hugh MacDiarmid, On a Raised Beach
  Glaucous, hoar, enfouldered, cyathiform, / Making mere faculae of the sun and moon […]

Anagrams

faucal

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive from fax (“torch”) +‎ -ula.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ku.la/, [ˈfäkʊɫ̪ä]

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ku.la/, [ˈfäːkulä]

Noun

facula f (genitive faculae); first declension

small torch

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	facula	faculae
Genitive	faculae	faculārum
Dative	faculae	faculīs
Accusative	faculam	faculās
Ablative	faculā	faculīs
Vocative	facula	faculae

Descendants

Vulgar Latin: *facla
- Old Occitan:
  - Catalan: falla (“effigy for burning, bonfire”)
- Romanian: fachie
- Romansch: facla
- → Old High German: faccala, vackel
  - Alemannic German: Fachele
  - German: Fackel
    - → Bulgarian: факел (fakel), факла (fakla)
    - → Macedonian: факел (fakel)
    - → Russian: факел (fakel)
  - Luxembourgish: Fakel
  - Rhine Franconian:
    Pennsylvania German: Fackel
  - → Serbo-Croatian:
    Cyrillic: бакља
    
    Latin: baklja
  - → Slovak: fakľa
  - → Slovene: bakla
Vulgar Latin: *facucla
- Old Portuguese:
  - Portuguese: fagulha (“spark”), faúlha
Vulgar Latin: *fascla (crossed with fascis (“bundle”))
- Old Portuguese: facha
  - Galician: facha, facho
  - Portuguese: facha, facho
- Old Spanish: facha
  - Spanish: hacha
Vulgar Latin: *flacula
- Italian: fiaccola
  - → Maltese: fjakkla
- Romanian: flacără (“flame”)
→ Albanian: flakë (“flame”) (possibly)
→ Bulgarian: факла (fakla)
- → Romanian: faclă (or from Greek)
→ Bulgarian: факлия (faklija)
- → Romanian: făclie (or a diminutive of faclă, or from Serbo-Croatian)
→ Catalan: fàcula
→ Dutch: fakkel
→ English: facula
→ Greek: φάκλα (fákla)
- → Romanian: faclă (or from Bulgarian)
→ Hungarian: fáklya
→ Italian: facola
→ Low German: Fachel
→ Old English: fæcele
→ Portuguese: fácula
→ Serbo-Croatian: faklja
- → Romanian: faclă (or from Bulgarian)
  - → Polish: fakła (Podhale dialect; alterntively from German)
→ Spanish: fácula
→ Swedish: fackla

References

“facula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“facula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
facula 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)
facula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
facula in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016

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