specula

• Rhymes: -ɛkjʊlə

specula

1. plural of speculum

• capsule, laces up, scale up, scaleup, upscale

specula

1. inflection of speculare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• capsule, lupesca, scapule

From speciō +‎ -ula. Compare scopulus from the same root, but through Ancient Greek.

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

specula f (genitive speculae); first declension

1. watchtower, lookout

First-declension noun.

• speculor

From spēs +‎ -cula.

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

spēcula f (genitive spēculae); first declension

1. slight hope

First-declension noun.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

specula

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of speculum

• “specula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “specula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "specula", 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)
• specula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “specula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Borrowed from French spéculer, Latin speculari.

a specula (third-person singular present speculează, past participle speculat) 1st conjugation

1. to speculate

• speculare

• speculație