aedicula

Borrowed from Latin aedicula.

aedicula (plural aediculae)

1. (art) A painted framed niche giving the appearance of depth.
2. A small shrine.

Diminutive from aedēs (“a dwelling, sanctuary”) +‎ -cula.

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

aedicula f (genitive aediculae); first declension

1. diminutive of aedēs
2. a small temple; chapel
3. a small house or room

First-declension noun.

• (small temple): sacellum

• → English: aedicula
• → Portuguese: edícula
• Italian: edicola
• Spanish: edículo

• larārium

• “aedicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aedicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aedicula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “aedicula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “aedicula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

Unadapted borrowing from Latin aedicula.

• IPA^(key): /ɛˈdi.ku.la/

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• Rhymes: -ikula
• Syllabification: ae‧di‧cu‧la

aedicula f

1. (architecture) aedicula

   Synonym: edykuł

• aedicula in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• aedicula in Narodowy Fotokorpus Języka Polskiego