scandula

Latin

Alternative forms

scindula (Late Latin)

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *sked- (“to split, scatter”), from *sek- (“to cut”).

Noun

scandula f (genitive scandulae); first declension

roof-shingle

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	scandula	scandulae
genitive	scandulae	scandulārum
dative	scandulae	scandulīs
accusative	scandulam	scandulās
ablative	scandulā	scandulīs
vocative	scandula	scandulae

Descendants

See also scindula.

Balkan Romance:
- Romanian: scândură
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: scandola
  Cervara: scannuia
- Neapolitan:
  Abruzzo: scannia
Insular Romance:
- Sicilian: iscannula
North Italian:
- Gallo-Italic:
  - Ligurian: scandora
  - Lombard: scandola
    Ticinese: scandla, scandra, szandra
- Friulian: scjandula
- Ladin: sciandora, sandla
- Romansch: scongla, schlonda ⇒ s-chandella

Etymology 2

Noun

scandula f (genitive scandulae); first declension

(Late Latin) alternative form of sandala (“type of grain”)

Descendants

Asturian: escalla
Aragonese: escalla, escaña
Galician: escana
>? Mozarabic: escalla ⇒ 'iškaylûla
- → Catalan: escaiola
Spanish: escanda

References

Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “scandŭla”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 11: S–Si, page 284

Further reading

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