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

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
Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: abella
- Franco-Provençal: avelye
- Ligurian: aveglia
- Lombard: avia, avich, avigia
- Old Occitan: abelha
  - Middle French: abeille
    - French: abeille (see there for further descendants)
  - Occitan: abelha
- Piedmontese: avija
- Romansch: avieul, aviul (Sursilvan), avioul (Surmiran), aviöl (Puter, Vallader)
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: abella, apella (Central)
- Old Leonese: [Term?]
  - Asturian: abeya
  - Leonese: abeiya
  - Mirandese: abeilha
- Old Galician-Portuguese: abella
  - Fala: abella
  - Galician: abella
  - Portuguese: abelha
- Old Spanish: abeja
  - Spanish: abeja
→ 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’s 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.