apicula

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of apis (“bee”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈpi.ku.la/

Noun

apicula f (genitive apiculae); first declension

1. a (little) bee

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
nominative	apicula	apiculae
genitive	apiculae	apiculārum
dative	apiculae	apiculīs
accusative	apiculam	apiculās
ablative	apiculā	apiculīs
vocative	apicula	apiculae

Descendants

• Esperanto: abelo
  • Ido: abelo
• Interlingua: apicula
• Italian: pecchia
• Navarro-Aragonese:
  • Aragonese: abella
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: abeya
  • Leonese: abeiya
  • Mirandese: abeilha

• Old Portuguese: abella
  • Galician: abella
  • Portuguese: abelha
• Old Provençal: abelha
  • Catalan: abella
  • Franco-Provençal: avilye
  • French: abeille
  • Occitan: abelha
  • Romansch: avieul
• Old Spanish:
  • Spanish: abeja

References

• apicula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• du Cange, Charles (1883), “apicula”, in G. A. Louis Henschel, Pierre Carpentier, Léopold Favre, editors, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (in Latin), Niort: L. Favre
• “apicula” in Félix Gaffiot’s Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette (1934)