vetula

Latin

Etymology

Feminine of vetulus (“old man”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯e.tu.la/, [ˈu̯ɛt̪ʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈve.tu.la/, [ˈvɛːt̪ulä]

Noun

vetula f (genitive vetulae); first declension

1. old woman
   • 1st or 2nd century, Juvenal, Satires, translated by Paul Allen Miller in Latin Verse Satire: An Anthology and Critical Reader, p.381.

     mortua, non vetula ("a dead woman, not an old one")

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. a corn dolly or small figurine, shaped as an old woman; a term in use among the Druidic pagans of Flanders in the 7th century
   • 7th century AD, Vita Eligii (The Life of St. Eligius), sermons of St. Eligius, translated by Jo Ann McNamara.[1]

     Nullus in Kalendas Januarii nefanda et ridiculosa, vetulas aut cervulos vel iotticos ("Do not..make vetulas, little deer or iotticos")

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	vetula	vetulae
Genitive	vetulae	vetulārum
Dative	vetulae	vetulīs
Accusative	vetulam	vetulās
Ablative	vetulā	vetulīs
Vocative	vetula	vetulae

References

• vetula 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)
• Elskens, Etienne, compiler. Latin Words, Genealogical Society of Flemish Americans.[2]
• Miller, Paul Allen. Latin Verse Satire: An Anthology and Critical Reader, p.380-381. [3]
• Vita Eligii (The Life of St. Eligius) (in English)[4] - US translation
• Vita di Eligio, SRM 4, II, 16. (in Latin)[5]
• Corn dolly on Wikipedia.Wikipedia