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pergula

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English

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Noun

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pergula (plural pergulas or pergulae)

  1. Alternative form of pergola

Anagrams

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Latin

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Etymology

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The origin is uncertain. Has been compared to Lithuanian pérgas (canoe), Old Church Slavonic прагъ (pragŭ, doorpost), Old Norse forkr (bar, stick), but the meanings are too divergent.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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pergula f (genitive pergulae); first declension

  1. A booth, stall or shop in front of a house
  2. A hut or hovel
  3. A brothel
  4. A pergola

Declension

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First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative pergula pergulae
genitive pergulae pergulārum
dative pergulae pergulīs
accusative pergulam pergulās
ablative pergulā pergulīs
vocative pergula pergulae

Descendants

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References

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  • pergula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • pergula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pergula 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)
  • pergula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • pergula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • pergula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
  • De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 460
  • Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “pĕrgŭla”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 8: Patavia–Pix, page 240