tendicula

Latin

Etymology

From tendō (“to extend, stretch”) +‎ -cula (instrument noun suffix).

Noun

tendicula f (genitive tendiculae); first declension

1. snare, noose

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	tendicula	tendiculae
genitive	tendiculae	tendiculārum
dative	tendiculae	tendiculīs
accusative	tendiculam	tendiculās
ablative	tendiculā	tendiculīs
vocative	tendicula	tendiculae

Descendants

• Megleno-Romanian: tindecľă
• Romanian: tindeche

References

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