scutella

See also: Scutella

English

Noun

scutella

1. plural of scutellum

Noun

scutella (plural scutellae)

1. A scutellum.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “scutella”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of scutra (“tray, dish, platter”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /skuˈtel.la/, [s̠kʊˈt̪ɛlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /skuˈtel.la/, [skuˈt̪ɛlːä]

Noun

scutella f (genitive scutellae); first declension

1. a small or shallow bowl, basin or dish
2. a small salver or tray

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	scutella	scutellae
Genitive	scutellae	scutellārum
Dative	scutellae	scutellīs
Accusative	scutellam	scutellās
Ablative	scutellā	scutellīs
Vocative	scutella	scutellae

Descendants

• Asturian: escudiella
• Catalan: escudella
• Cornish: skudel (borrowing)
• Dutch: schotel (borrowing)
• English: scuttle
• French: écuelle
• Friulian: scudiele
• German: Schüssel (borrowing)
• Italian: scodella
• Occitan: escudèla

• Old Armenian: սկուտղ (skutł) (borrowing)
  • Armenian: սկուտեղ (skuteġ)
• Old Galician-Portuguese: escudela
  • Galician: escudela
  • Portuguese: escudela
• Serbo-Croatian: zdjȅla/zdȅla (borrowing), škodela (regional, borrowing), škidela (regional, borrowing)
• Sicilian: scudedda
• Slovene: skleda (borrowing), zdela (borrowing), skodelica (borrowing)
• Spanish: escudilla
• Venetian: scuèƚa, scudèla

References

• “scutella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “scutella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• scutella 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)
• scutella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “scutella”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin