facula

See also: Facula

English

Borrowed from Latin facula (“little torch”).

facula (plural faculae)

(astronomy) A bright spot or patch between sunspots.
- c. 1933-1934, Hugh MacDiarmid, On a Raised Beach:
  Glaucous, hoar, enfouldered, cyathiform, / Making mere faculae of the sun and moon […]

region on the sun's surface

Diminutive from fax (“torch”) +‎ -ula.

facula f (genitive faculae); first declension

First-declension noun.

Catalan: falla (“effigy for burning, bonfire”)
Romanian: fachie
Romansch: facla
→ Andalusian Arabic: فَلْيَة (falya), فَلْيَا (falyā)
Vulgar Latin: *faccula
- → Proto-West Germanic: *fakkulā (see there for further descendants)
Vulgar Latin: *facucula
- Old Galician-Portuguese:
  - Portuguese: fagulha (“spark”), faúlha
Vulgar Latin: *fascula (crossed with fascis (“bundle”))
- Old Galician-Portuguese: facha
  - Galician: facha, facho
  - Portuguese: facha, facho
- Old Spanish: facha
  - Spanish: hacha
Vulgar Latin: *flaccula
- Italian: fiaccola (see there for further descendants)
- Gallo-Italic of Sicily: ciàccara f
- Romanian: flacără (“flame”)
→? Albanian: flakë (“flame”)
→ Bulgarian: факла (fakla)
- → Romanian: faclă (or from Greek)
→ Bulgarian: факлия (faklija)
- → Romanian: făclie (or a diminutive of faclă, or from Serbo-Croatian)
→ Catalan: fàcula
→ English: facula
→ Greek: φάκλα (fákla)
- → Romanian: faclă (or from Bulgarian)
→ Hungarian: fáklya
→ Italian: facola
→ Portuguese: fácula
→ Serbo-Croatian: faklja
- → Romanian: faclă (or from Bulgarian)
  - → Polish: fakła (Podhale dialect; alternatively from German)
→ Spanish: fácula
→ Swedish: fackla

“facula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“facula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"facula", 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)
facula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
facula in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016