scutella

See also: Scutella and Scutellà

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛlə

Noun

scutella

1. plural of scutellum

Noun

scutella (plural scutellae)

1. A scutellum.

References

• “scutella”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Latin

Etymology

From scutra (“tray, dish, platter”) +‎ -la (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /skuˈtel.la/, [s̠kʊˈt̪ɛlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /skuˈtel.la/, [skuˈt̪ɛlːä]

Noun

scutella f (genitive scutellae); first declension

1. a small or shallow bowl, basin or dish
2. a small salver or tray

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scutella	scutellae
Genitive	scutellae	scutellārum
Dative	scutellae	scutellīs
Accusative	scutellam	scutellās
Ablative	scutellā	scutellīs
Vocative	scutella	scutellae

Descendants

• Italo-Dalmatian
  • Italian: scodella
  • Sicilian: scudedda
• Friulian: scudiele
• Franco-Provençal: êcuella
• Old French: escuele
  • French: écuelle
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: escudella
  • Occitan: escudèla
• Romansch: stgadella
• Venetian: scuèƚa, scudèla
• West Iberian
  • Asturian: escudiella
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: escudela
    • Galician: escudela
    • Portuguese: escudela
  • Old Spanish: escudiella
    • Spanish: escudilla
• → Old Armenian: սկուտղ (skutł) (see there for further descendants)
• → Proto-Brythonic: *skudell (see there for further descendants)
• → Proto-West Germanic: *skutilu (see there for further descendants)
• → Serbo-Croatian: zdjela, zdela, škodela (regional), škidela (regional)
• → Slovene: skleda, skodela

References

• “scutella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scutella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scutella 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)
• scutella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “scutella”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin