ancilla

English

Etymology

From Latin ancilla (“maid, slave-girl”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /anˈsɪlə/

Noun

ancilla (plural ancillae)

1. A maid.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 306:

     ‘And pass me that towel,’ added Ada, but the ancilla was picking up coins she had dropped in her haste [...].

2. An auxiliary or accessory
   • 2009,, Ryo Okamoto et al., “An Entanglement Filter”^[1], Science, volume 323, number 5913, DOI:10.1126/science.1167182: 

     The filter achieves this two-qubit filtering effect by using two ancilla photons as probes that detect whether or not the two input photons are in the desired states.

Related terms

• ancillary

Anagrams

• aclinal

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Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of ancula (“maid”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA: /anˈkil.la/

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Noun

ancilla (genitive ancillae); f, first declension

1. maid, slave-girl
2. vocative singular of ancilla

ancillā

1. ablative singular of ancilla

Inflection

Number	Singular	Plural
nominative	ancilla	ancillae
genitive	ancillae	ancillārum
dative	ancillae	ancillīs
accusative	ancillam	ancillās
ablative	ancillā	ancillīs
vocative	ancilla	ancillae

Derived terms

ancillāriolus ancillāris

ancillor ancillula

Related terms

• ancillātus
• ancula