sitella

From situla (“bucket for drawing water; urn”) +‎ -la (diminutive suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /siˈtel.la/, [s̠ɪˈt̪ɛlːʲä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /siˈtel.la/, [siˈt̪ɛlːä]

sitella f (genitive sitellae); first declension

1. a voting urn

First-declension noun.

All show the etymological sense of 'bucket' found in Latin situla.

• Franco-Provençal: séla, cëla, sella
• Lombard: sidèla, sedèla
• Romansch: sadeala, sadela
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *sitellus (see there for further descendants)

• “sitella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sitella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “sĭtĕlla”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 11: S–Si, page 660