scilla

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin scilla, from Ancient Greek σκίλλα (skílla). Doublet of squill.

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scilla (plural scillas)

  1. A plant of the genus Scilla; a squill.
  2. (pharmacology) A bulb of Urginea scilla.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: [], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: [] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition II, section 4, member 2, subsection i:
      Scilla, or sea onyon, hot and dry in the third degree.

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Italian

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Etymology

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From Latin scilla, from Ancient Greek σκίλλα (skílla).

Noun

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scilla f (plural scille)

  1. squill (plant of the genus Scilla)

Latin

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Noun

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scilla f (genitive scillae); first declension

  1. Alternative form of squilla

Declension

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First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative scilla scillae
Genitive scillae scillārum
Dative scillae scillīs
Accusative scillam scillās
Ablative scillā scillīs
Vocative scilla scillae