epistula

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eˈpis.tu.la/, [ɛˈpɪs̠t̪ʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /eˈpis.tu.la/, [eˈpist̪ulä]

Noun

epistula f (genitive epistulae); first declension

1. Alternative form of epistola

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	epistula	epistulae
genitive	epistulae	epistulārum
dative	epistulae	epistulīs
accusative	epistulam	epistulās
ablative	epistulā	epistulīs
vocative	epistula	epistulae

References

• “epistula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “epistula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• epistula 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)
• epistula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • to write a letter to some one: epistulam (litteras) dare, scribere, mittere ad aliquem
    
  • a letter to Atticus: epistula ad Atticum data, scripta, missa or quae ad A. scripta est
    
  • to charge some one with a letter for some one else: epistulam dare alicui ad aliquem
    
  • to deliver a letter to some one (used of the messenger): epistulam reddere alicui (Att. 5. 21. 4)
    
  • correspondence: epistularum commercium
    
  • to seal, fasten a letter: epistulam signare, obsignare
    
  • to open a letter: epistulam solvere, aperire, resignare (of Romans also linum incīdere)
    
  • to intercept a letter: epistulam intercipere (Att. 1. 13. 2)
    
  • to take forcible possession of a letter: epistulam deprehendere