apicula

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of apis (“bee”).

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. 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

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

• Old Galician-Portuguese: abella
  • Galician: abella
  • Portuguese: abelha
• Old Occitan: 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
• 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.