trulla

trulla

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

trulla (plural trullas)

1. trowel

• truella

From trua (“ladle”) +‎ -ella (feminine diminutive suffix).

trulla f (genitive trullae); first declension

1. small ladle or scoop

First-declension noun.

• Middle French: truelle (from truella)
  • English: trowel
  • French: truelle
  • → Galician: truel
• ⇒ Galician: trollo (from trullium)
• Byzantine Greek: τροῦλλος (troûllos, "dome")
  • → Greek: τρούλος (troúlos), τούρλα (toúrla)
  • → Apulian: truddu ("dome"), trullu
  • → Italian: trullo ("dome")
  • → Phlegrean Fields:
    • Bacoli: trúglie ("dome", figuratively "full", "fat"), trúgghje
    • Procida: trugghjo ("full", "fat")
• Portuguese: trolha
• Sardinian: trudha (“ladle”), turudha, turra

• “trulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “trulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "trulla", 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)
• trulla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “trulla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “trulla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin