cornicula

English

Noun

cornicula

1. plural of corniculum

Latin

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

Latin cornīx f

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -ula

Latin cornīcula

From cornīx f (“crow”) + -ula (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔrˈniː.kʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [korˈniː.ku.la]

Noun

cornīcula f (genitive cornīculae); first declension

1. a small crow

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	cornīcula	cornīculae
genitive	cornīculae	cornīculārum
dative	cornīculae	cornīculīs
accusative	cornīculam	cornīculās
ablative	cornīculā	cornīculīs
vocative	cornīcula	cornīculae

Descendants

Via the Vulgar *cornĭcla:

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: corniglia (archaic, regional)
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: cornella
  • French: corneille
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: cornelha
    • Galician: cornella
    • Portuguese: cornelha
  • Spanish: corneja

Via the Vulgar *cornacla:

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: cornacchia
  • Sicilian: curnacchia

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kɔrˈnɪ.kʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [korˈniː.ku.la]

Noun

cornicula

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of corniculum

References

• “cornicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “cornicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "cornicula", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “cornicula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “cornīcula”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 2: C Q K, page 1190