lenticula

See also: lentícula

English

Etymology

From Latin lenticula. See lenticel. Doublet of lentil.

Noun

lenticula (plural lenticulas or lenticulae)

1. (medicine) A kind of eruption upon the skin; lentigo; freckle.
2. A small lens.
3. (botany) A lenticel.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “lenticula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of lēns.

Noun

lenticula f (genitive lenticulae); first declension

1. lentil
2. freckle

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lenticula	lenticulae
genitive	lenticulae	lenticulārum
dative	lenticulae	lenticulīs
accusative	lenticulam	lenticulās
ablative	lenticulā	lenticulīs
vocative	lenticula	lenticulae

Descendants

• Asturian: llenteya, lentilla (through French)
• Catalan: llentilla, lentícula (borrowing), lentilla (through French)
• English: lenticule (borrowing), lentil (through Old French)
• French: lentille
• Galician: lentella, lentixa, lantinxa
• Italian: lenticchia
• Occitan: lentilha
• Portuguese: lentilha, lentícula (borrowing), lenticela
• Romanian: lentilă (through French)
• Sicilian: linticchia
• Spanish: lenteja, lentilla (through French)

References

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