sitella

Latin

Etymology

From situla (“urn, bucket”) +‎ -la (diminutive ending).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /siˈtel.la/, [s̠ɪˈt̪ɛlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /siˈtel.la/, [siˈt̪ɛlːä]

Noun

sitella f (genitive sitellae); first declension

1. an urn for holding ballots

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sitella	sitellae
Genitive	sitellae	sitellārum
Dative	sitellae	sitellīs
Accusative	sitellam	sitellās
Ablative	sitellā	sitellīs
Vocative	sitella	sitellae

Descendants

(All with the sense of ‘bucket’ found in the root situla but apparently not attested for sitella)

• Franco-Provençal: che̱le, cële
• Lombard: sidèla, sedèla
• Romansch: sadeala, sadela

Reflexes of an assumed masculine variant *sitellus:

• Padanian:
  • Ladin: scedél
  • Lombard: sidèl, sidél, sedêl
  • Piedmontese: sidèl
  • Romansch: sadial
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: siau, sar
  • Old French: seel
    • French: seau

Further reading

• “sitella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sitella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.