navicula

See also: Navicula

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin nāvicula.

Noun

navicula (plural naviculae)

1. (Christianity) A thurible in the shape of a boat.

See also

• nef

Latin

Etymology

From nāvis (“ship”) +‎ -cula (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /naːˈu̯i.ku.la/, [näːˈu̯ɪkʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /naˈvi.ku.la/, [näˈviːkulä]

Noun

nāvicula f (genitive nāviculae); first declension

1. diminutive of nāvis: a small ship

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	nāvicula	nāviculae
genitive	nāviculae	nāviculārum
dative	nāviculae	nāviculīs
accusative	nāviculam	nāviculās
ablative	nāviculā	nāviculīs
vocative	nāvicula	nāviculae

References

• “navicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “navicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• navicula 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)
• navicula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.