apicula

Latin

Etymology

From apis (“bee”) +‎ -cula (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

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

Noun

apicula f (genitive apiculae); first declension

1. diminutive of apis (“bee”)

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	apicula	apiculae
genitive	apiculae	apiculārum
dative	apiculae	apiculīs
accusative	apiculam	apiculās
ablative	apiculā	apiculīs
vocative	apicula	apiculae

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: pecchia
• Rhaeto-Romance:
  • Romansh: avieul, aviul (Sursilvan), avioul (Surmiran), aviöl (Puter, Vallader)
• Gallo-Italic:
  • Ligurian: aveglia
  • Lombard: avia, avich, avigia
  • Piedmontese: avija
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: abella
  • Franco-Provençal: avelye
  • Old Occitan: abelha
    • Occitan: abelha
    • → Middle French: abeille
      • French: abeille (see there for further descendants)
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: abella, apella (Central)
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: abella, abelha
    • Fala: abella
    • Galician: abella
    • Portuguese: abelha
  • Old Leonese: abeia
    • Asturian: abeya
    • Leonese: abeiya
    • Mirandese: abeilha
  • Old Spanish: abeja
    • Ladino: abeja / אביז׳ה
    • Spanish: abeja
• Borrowings:
  • → Interlingua: apicula

References

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