navicula

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See also: Navicula

English

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin nāvicula.

Noun

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navicula (plural naviculae)

  1. (Christianity) A thurible in the shape of a boat.

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Latin

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Etymology

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From nāvis (ship) +‎ -cula (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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nāvicula f (genitive nāviculae); first declension

  1. diminutive of nāvis: a small ship

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative nāvicula nāviculae
Genitive nāviculae nāviculārum
Dative nāviculae nāviculīs
Accusative nāviculam nāviculās
Ablative nāviculā nāviculīs
Vocative nāvicula nāviculae

References

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  • navicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • navicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • navicula 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)
  • navicula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.