fécula

Borrowed from Latin faecula, diminutive of faex (“residue, dregs”).

• Hyphenation: fé‧cu‧la

fécula f (plural féculas)

1. starch

   Synonym: amidón

• “fécula”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2025
• “fécula” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

Learned borrowing from Latin faecula, diminutive of faex (“residue, dregs”).

• Rhymes: -ɛkulɐ
• Hyphenation: fé‧cu‧la

fécula f (plural féculas)

1. starch (powdery substance extracted from plants)

   Synonym: amido

• “fécula” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “fécula”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2025
• “fécula”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025

Borrowed from Latin faecula, diminutive of faex (“residue, dregs”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈfekula/ [ˈfe.ku.la]
• Rhymes: -ekula
• Syllabification: fé‧cu‧la

fécula f (plural féculas)

1. starch (powdery substance extracted from plants)

   Synonym: almidón

• “fécula”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 10 December 2024