arcula

Latin

Alternative forms

• arcla (Vulgar Latin)

Etymology

arca (“chest, box, coffer”) +‎ -ula (diminutive suffix)

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ku.la/, [ˈärkʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈar.ku.la/, [ˈärkulä]

Noun

arcula f (genitive arculae); first declension

1. a small chest, box, casket or coffer; small perfume box or jewel casket
2. a windchest of an organ

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	arcula	arculae
Genitive	arculae	arculārum
Dative	arculae	arculīs
Accusative	arculam	arculās
Ablative	arculā	arculīs
Vocative	arcula	arculae

Derived terms

• arculata
• arculārius

Descendants

• Byzantine Greek: ἄρκλα (árkla)
  • Greek: άρκλα (árkla)
  • → Old Armenian: արկղ (arkł)
    • → Armenian: արկղ (arkġ) (learned)

References

• “arcula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “arcula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• arcula 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)
• arcula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “arcula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers