situla

See also: sítula

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin situla.

Pronunciation

Noun

situla (plural situlae or situlas)

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

Translations

Further reading

Latin

Pronunciation

  • (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈsi.tu.la/, [ˈsɪ.tʊ.ɫa]

Etymology 1

Maybe from the same Proto-Indo-European root common to Lithuanian siẽtas (“sieve”) and sithlad (“the act of sieving”)[1].

Alternative forms

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
  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
  3. (Medieval Latin) a measure of capacity for liquids
Declension

First declension.

Case 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
  • situlārius
  • situlifōrmis
Descendants
  • Albanian: shek
  • Arabic: سطل, satl
  • English: situla
  • French: seille

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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
  • SITULUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 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 (in Latin), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 974/2
  1. ↑ Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954), “situla”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 548

Etymology 2

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

Noun

situla n

  1. nominative plural of situlum
  2. accusative plural of situlum
  3. vocative plural of situlum
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