situla

See also: sítula

English

an Apulian situla (English)

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin situlabor.

English situla

Borrowed from Latin situla.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈsɪtjuːlə/
• Hyphenation: si‧tu‧la

Noun

situla (plural situlae or situlas)

1. (archaeology) A deep ceramic vase with a wide opening.

Related terms

• situla art
• situla culture
• situlate
• situliform

Translations

archaeology: deep ceramic vase with a wide opening

• Finnish: ruukku (fi)

Further reading

• situla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• tulasi, situal

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin situla (“vessel for water”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of secchia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.tu.la/
• Rhymes: -itula
• Hyphenation: sì‧tu‧la

Noun

situla f (plural situle)

1. (archaeology) a kind of metallic vase

Further reading

• situla in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Anagrams

• saluti

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈsɪ.tʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈsiː.tu.la]

Etymology 1

Possibly from the same Proto-Indo-European root common to Lithuanian si̇́etas (“sieve”) and Middle Irish sithlad (“the act of sieving”).

Alternative forms

• situlus (Classical Latin)
• siclus (Late Latin)
• situlum (Medieval Latin)

Noun

situla f (genitive situlae); first declension

1. a vessel used to hold water
   1. a bucket or pail, especially one used to draw water from a well
   2. (Ecclesiastical Latin) a vessel for holding holy water
   3. (Medieval Latin) a measure of capacity for liquids
2. a voting urn (for drawing lots or holding voting tablets); loosely, a ballot box
   1. a basin, jar, urn, vel sim. on a monument

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	situla	situlae
genitive	situlae	situlārum
dative	situlae	situlīs
accusative	situlam	situlās
ablative	situlā	situlīs
vocative	situla	situlae

Synonyms

• (vessel for holding water, bucket, pail): hama
• (voting urn): sitella

Derived terms

• sitella
• situlārius
• situlifōrmis

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: secchia
• North Italian:
  • Friulian: segle
  • Ladin: segla, sedla
  • Ligurian: séggia
  • Piedmontese: sia, sija, segia, sigia ⇒ sigèla, sigilin
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: sèlye
  • French: seille (regional)
  • Occitan: selha
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Galician: sella
  • Portuguese: selha
• Borrowings:
  • →? Albanian: shek
  • → Byzantine Greek: σίτλα (sítla) (see there for further descendants)
  • → English: situla
  • → French: situle
  • → Italian: situla
  • → Portuguese: sítula
  • → Romanian: situlă
  • → Spanish: sítula

Reflexes of the masculine variant situlus:

• Dalmatian:
  • sidlo
    • → Serbo-Croatian: си̏дло, sȉdlo
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: secchio
  • Neapolitan: sicchio, secchio, sicchiu
  • Sicilian: sicchiu
• North Italian:
  • ⇒ Piedmontese: sion
  • Venetan: sécio
    • → Serbo-Croatian: си̏ћ, sȉć
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Gascon: selh (Béarnais)
  • Poitevin-Saintongeais: seil
• Borrowings:
  • →? Middle High German: sīdel
    • German: Seidel
      • Czech: žejdlík

References

• “sĭtŭla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “sĭtŭlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "SITULA", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• "SITULUS", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “sĭtŭla”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,450/1.
• “sĭtŭlus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “1,450/1”
• “situla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “situla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “situla” on page 1,775/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• “situlus” on page 1,775/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
• Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “situla”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 974/2

Etymology 2

Regularly declined forms of situlum, a neuter Mediaeval by-form of the feminine situla, above.

Noun

situla n

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of situlum