apicula

Latin

Etymology

From apis (“bee”) +‎ -cula (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈpi.ku.la/, [äˈpɪkʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈpi.ku.la/, [äˈpiːkulä]

Noun

apicula f (genitive apiculae); first declension

1. diminutive of apis: a (little) bee

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	apicula	apiculae
Genitive	apiculae	apiculārum
Dative	apiculae	apiculīs
Accusative	apiculam	apiculās
Ablative	apiculā	apiculīs
Vocative	apicula	apiculae

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: pecchia
• Padanian:
  • Piedmontese: avija
  • Lombard: avia, avich, avigia
  • Romansch: avieul, avioul, aviöl (all masculine)
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: avilye
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: abella
  • Catalan: abella
  • Old Occitan: abelha
    • Occitan: abelha
    • → French: abeille
      • → Esperanto: abelo
        • Ido: abelo
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: abeya
    • Leonese: abeiya
    • Mirandese: abeilha
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: abella
    • Galician: abella
    • Portuguese: abelha
  • Spanish: abeja
• Borrowings:
  • → Interlingua: apicula

References

• “apicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• apicula 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)
• apicula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.