ferula

See also: Ferula and férula

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin ferula (“giant fennel (whose stalks were once used in punishing schoolboys); rod, whip”), from ferire (“to strike”).

Noun

ferula (plural ferulas or ferulae)

1. (obsolete) A ferule.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Beaumont and Fletcher to this entry?)

2. (archaic) A stroke from a cane.
   • 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, p.50)

     And Old Barrett has a new way of twisting the note so that you can't open it and fold it again to see how many ferulae you are to get.

3. (obsolete) The imperial sceptre in the Byzantine Empire.

Translations

stroke from a cane

• French: coup de cane m
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “ferula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Laufer, earful

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Latin

Etymology

Uncertain but perhaps connected to festūca (“stalk, straw”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈfe.ru.la/, [ˈfɛrʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈfe.ru.la/, [ˈfɛːrulä]

Noun

ferula f (genitive ferulae); first declension

1. cane
2. giant fennel or its stalk
3. vocative singular of ferula

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ferula	ferulae
Genitive	ferulae	ferulārum
Dative	ferulae	ferulīs
Accusative	ferulam	ferulās
Ablative	ferulā	ferulīs
Vocative	ferula	ferulae

Descendants

• French: férule
• Spanish: férula, cañaherla, cañaheja

Noun

(deprecated template usage) ferulā f

1. ablative singular of ferula

References

• “ferula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ferula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ferula 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)
• ferula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.