situla

See also: sítula

English

an Apulian situla (English)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin situla.

Pronunciation

Noun

situla (plural situlae or situlas)

  1. (archaeology) A deep ceramic vase with a wide opening.

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Further reading

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin situla (vessel for water), of uncertain origin. Doublet of secchia.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsi.tu.la/
  • Rhymes: -itula
  • Hyphenation: sì‧tu‧la

Noun

situla f (plural situle)

  1. (archaeology) a kind of metallic vase

Further reading

  • situla in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams


Latin

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Maybe from the same Proto-Indo-European root common to Lithuanian siẽtas (sieve) and sithlad (the act of sieving)[1].

Alternative forms

Noun

situla f (genitive situlae); first declension

  1. a vessel used to hold water
    1. a bucket or pail, especially one used to draw water from a well
    2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) a vessel for holding holy water
    3. (Medieval Latin) a measure of capacity for liquids
  2. a voting urn (for drawing lots or holding voting tablets); loosely, a ballot box
    1. a basin, jar, urn, vel sim. on a monument
Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative situla situlae
Genitive situlae situlārum
Dative situlae situlīs
Accusative situlam situlās
Ablative situlā situlīs
Vocative situla situlae
Synonyms
  • (vessel for holding water, bucket, pail): hama
  • (voting urn): sitella
Derived terms
Descendants

See also siclus and sitella.

  • Vulgar Latin:
    • *sicla (see there for further descendants)
  • Ancient borrowings:
    • Byzantine Greek: σίτλα (sítla) (see there for further descendants)
    • Middle High German: sīdel
      • German: Seidel
        • Czech: žejdlík
  • Later borrowings:

References

  • sĭtŭla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • sĭtŭlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • SITULA 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)
  • SITULUS 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)
  • sĭtŭla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,450/1
  • sĭtŭlus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “1,450/1”
  • situla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • situla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • situla” on page 1,775/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
  • situlus” on page 1,775/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
  • Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “situla”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 974/2
  1. Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954), situla”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 548

Etymology 2

Regularly declined forms of situlum, a neuter Mediaeval by-form of the feminine situla, above.

Noun

situla n

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of situlum
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