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fiscella

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin fiscella.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /fiʃˈʃɛl.la/
  • Rhymes: -ɛlla
  • Hyphenation: fi‧scèl‧la

Noun

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fiscella f (plural fiscelle)

  1. a conical wicker basket used to drain fresh ricotta
    Synonym: (made of plastic material suitable for food use) fuscella

Descendants

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  • Maltese: bixkilla, bexkilla (dialectal)

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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From fiscina (small wicker basket) +‎ -la (feminine diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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fiscella f (genitive fiscellae); first declension

  1. small wicker basket

Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative fiscella fiscellae
genitive fiscellae fiscellārum
dative fiscellae fiscellīs
accusative fiscellam fiscellās
ablative fiscellā fiscellīs
vocative fiscella fiscellae

Descendants

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References

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