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situla

See also: sítula

English

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an Apulian situla (English)

Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin situla.

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Noun

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situla (plural situlae or situlas)

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

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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situla f (plural situle)

  1. (archaeology) a kind of metallic vase

Further reading

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

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Latin

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Possibly from the same Proto-Indo-European root common to Lithuanian síetas (“sieve”) and Middle Irish sithlad (“the act of sieving”).[1]

Alternative forms

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Noun

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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
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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative situla situlae
genitive situlae situlārum
dative situlae situlīs
accusative situlam situlās
ablative situlā situlīs
vocative situla situlae
Synonyms
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  • (vessel for holding water, bucket, pail): hama
  • (voting urn): sitella
Derived terms
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Descendants
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Reflexes of the masculine variant situlus:

References

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  • “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), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 548

Etymology 2

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

Noun

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situla n

  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of situlum
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