facula

See also: Facula

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin facula (“little torch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfækjʊlə/

Noun

facula (plural faculae)

1. (astronomy) A bright spot or patch between sunspots.
   • c. 1933-1934, Hugh MacDiarmid, On a Raised Beach:

     Glaucous, hoar, enfouldered, cyathiform, / Making mere faculae of the sun and moon […]

Translations

region on the sun's surface

• Catalan: fàcula (ca) f
• Czech: fakule (cs) f
• Esperanto: suntorĉo
• French: facula (fr) f
• German: Sonnenfackel (de) f
• Italian: facula f
• Latin: facula f
• Luxembourgish: Sonnefakel f
• Macedonian: факула f (fakula)
• Portuguese: fácula f
• Romanian: faculă solară f
• Russian: солнечный фа́кел m (solnečnyj fákel)

Anagrams

• faucal

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive from fax (“torch”) +‎ -ula.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ku.la/, [ˈfäkʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ku.la/, [ˈfäːkulä]

Noun

facula f (genitive faculae); first declension

1. small torch

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	facula	faculae
Genitive	faculae	faculārum
Dative	faculae	faculīs
Accusative	faculam	faculās
Ablative	faculā	faculīs
Vocative	facula	faculae

Descendants

• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: falla (“effigy for burning, bonfire”)
• Romanian: fachie
• Romansch: facla
• → Andalusian Arabic: فَلْيَة (falya), فَلْيَا (falyā)
• Vulgar Latin: *faccula
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *fakkulā (see there for further descendants)
• Vulgar Latin: *facucula
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Portuguese: fagulha (“spark”), faúlha
• Vulgar Latin: *fascula (crossed with fascis (“bundle”))
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: facha
    • Galician: facha, facho
    • Portuguese: facha, facho
  • Old Spanish: facha
    • Spanish: hacha
• Vulgar Latin: *flaccula
  • Italian: fiaccola (see there for further descendants)
  • Gallo-Italic of Sicily: ciàccara f
  • Romanian: flacără (“flame”)
• →? Albanian: flakë (“flame”)
• → Bulgarian: факла (fakla)
  • → Romanian: faclă (or from Greek)
• → Bulgarian: факлия (faklija)
  • → Romanian: făclie (or a diminutive of faclă, or from Serbo-Croatian)
• → Catalan: fàcula
• → English: facula
• → Greek: φάκλα (fákla)
  • → Romanian: faclă (or from Bulgarian)
• → Hungarian: fáklya
• → Italian: facola
• → Portuguese: fácula
• → Serbo-Croatian: faklja
  • → Romanian: faclă (or from Bulgarian)
    • → Polish: fakła (Podhale dialect; alternatively from German)
• → Spanish: fácula
• → Swedish: fackla

References

• “facula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “facula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• facula 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)
• facula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• facula in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016