sententiola

Latin

Etymology

From sententia (“opinion, thought, feeling”) +‎ -ola (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /sen.tenˈti.o.la/, [s̠ɛn̪t̪ɛn̪ˈt̪iɔɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sen.tenˈt͡si.o.la/, [sen̪t̪enˈt̪͡s̪iːolä]

Noun

sententiola f (genitive sententiolae); first declension

1. a short or little sentence, maxim, or aphorism

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	sententiola	sententiolae
genitive	sententiolae	sententiolārum
dative	sententiolae	sententiolīs
accusative	sententiolam	sententiolās
ablative	sententiolā	sententiolīs
vocative	sententiola	sententiolae

References

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