sportula
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin sportula (“small basket, by extension a prize”)
Noun
sportula (plural sportulae)
- A gift or present; a prize.
- South
- To feed luxuriously, to frequent sports and theatres, to run for the sportula.
- South
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “sportula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Diminutive of sporta (“basket”).
Noun
sportula f (genitive sportulae); first declension
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | sportula | sportulae |
| Genitive | sportulae | sportulārum |
| Dative | sportulae | sportulīs |
| Accusative | sportulam | sportulās |
| Ablative | sportulā | sportulīs |
| Vocative | sportula | sportulae |
Descendants
References
- “sportula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “sportula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- sportula 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)
- sportula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “sportula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “sportula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin