facula

See also: Facula

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin facula (“little torch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfækjʊlə/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

facula (plural faculae)

1. (astronomy) A bright spot or patch between sunspots.
   • c. 1933-1934, Hugh MacDiarmid, On a Raised Beach:

     Glaucous, hoar, enfouldered, cyathiform, / Making mere faculae of the sun and moon […]

Derived terms

• facular

Translations

region on the sun's surface

• Arabic: صَيْخَد m (ṣayḵad)
• Catalan: fàcula (ca) f
• Czech: fakule (cs) f
• Esperanto: suntorĉo
• French: facula (fr) f
• German: Sonnenfackel (de) f
• Italian: facula f
• Latin: facula f
• Luxembourgish: Sonnefakel f
• Macedonian: факула f (fakula)
• Portuguese: fácula f
• Romanian: faculă solară f
• Russian: солнечный фа́кел m (solnečnyj fákel)

Anagrams

• faucal

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive from fax (“torch”) +‎ -ula.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

facula f (genitive faculae); first declension

1. small torch

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	facula	faculae
genitive	faculae	faculārum
dative	faculae	faculīs
accusative	faculam	faculās
ablative	faculā	faculīs
vocative	facula	faculae

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: falcola (“candle”) (dialectal)

Derivates:

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *faccula
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *fakkulā (see there for further descendants)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *facla
  • Balkano-Romance:
    • Romanian: fachie
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: faglia (archaic, dialectal)
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Romansh: facla
  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Catalan: falla
    • Occitan: falha
    • Old French: faille
    • → Andalusian Arabic: فَلْيَة (falya), فَلْيَا (falyā)
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *facucula
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: fagulla
      • Portuguese: fagulha, faúlha
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *fascula (crossed with fascis)
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: facha
      • Galician: facha, facho
      • Portuguese: facha, facho
    • Old Spanish: facha
      • Spanish: hacha
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *flaccula
  • Balkano-Romance:
    • Romanian: flacără
    • → Albanian: flakë
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: fiaccola
      • → Maltese: fjakkla
      • → Turkish: fiyaka
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Gallo-Italic of Sicily: ciàccara

Borrowings:

• Sorted:
  • → Catalan: fàcula
  • → English: facula
  • → French: facule
  • → Italian: facola
  • → Portuguese: fácula
  • → Proto-Brythonic:
    • Cornish: fagel
    • Middle Welsh: fagl
      • Welsh: ffagl
  • → Spanish: fácula
• Unsorted:
  • → Bulgarian: факла (fakla), факлия (faklija)
  • → Greek: φάκλα (fákla)
  • → Hungarian: fáklya
  • → Romanian: faclă, făclie (see both etymologies)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: faklja
  • → Swedish: fackla

References

• “facula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “facula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "facula", 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)
• “facula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• facula in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016