scandula

Latin

Alternative forms

• scindula (Late Latin)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *sked- (“to split, scatter”), from *sek- (“to cut”).

Noun

scandula f (genitive scandulae); first declension

1. roof-shingle

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scandula	scandulae
Genitive	scandulae	scandulārum
Dative	scandulae	scandulīs
Accusative	scandulam	scandulās
Ablative	scandulā	scandulīs
Vocative	scandula	scandulae

Descendants

See also scindula.

• Balkan Romance:
  • Romanian: scândură
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: scandola

    Cervara: scannuia

  • Neapolitan:

    Abruzzo: scannia

• Insular Romance:
  • Sicilian: iscannula
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Ligurian: scandora
    • Lombard: scandola

      Ticinese: scandla, scandra, szandra

  • Friulian: scjandula
  • Ladin: sciandora, sandla
  • Romansch: scongla, schlonda ⇒ s-chandella

Etymology 2

Noun

scandula f (genitive scandulae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) Alternative form of sandala (“type of grain”)

Descendants

• Asturian: escalla
• Aragonese: escalla, escaña
• Galician: escana
• >? Mozarabic: escalla ⇒ 'iškaylûla
  • → Catalan: escaiola
• Spanish: escanda

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “scandŭla”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 11: S–Si, page 284

Further reading

• “scandula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• scandula 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)
• scandula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “scandula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers