vulpecula

See also: Vulpecula

Latin

Alternative forms

• volpēcula

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂wl̥p-i-s

Proto-Italic *wolpis

Latin volpēs

Latin vulpēs

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Proto-Italic *-kelos

Latin -cula

Latin vulpēcula

From vulpēs (“fox”) + -cula (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wʊɫˈpeː.kʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vulˈpɛː.ku.la]

Noun

vulpēcula f (genitive vulpēculae); first declension

1. diminutive of vulpēs (“fox”)
2. A little fox

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vulpēcula	vulpēculae
genitive	vulpēculae	vulpēculārum
dative	vulpēculae	vulpēculīs
accusative	vulpēculam	vulpēculās
ablative	vulpēculā	vulpēculīs
vocative	vulpēcula	vulpēculae

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: volpiglio
  • Sicilian: vurpigghiuni
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: gouorpely
  • Catalan: volpell, volpitz
  • Occitan: volpìlh
  • Old French: golpil, vorpil, volpil
    • French: goupil
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Asturian: (rare) vulpeya
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: golpella
    • Galician: golpella
    • Portuguese: golpelha
  • Old Spanish: vulpeja, golpeja, gulpeja
    • Spanish: vulpeja

See also

• vulpēs
• vulpīnus

References

• “vulpecula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “vulpecula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.