different between facula vs fecula

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin facula (“little torch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fækj?l?/

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 […]

Anagrams

• faucal

Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fa.ku.la/, [?fäk???ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fa.ku.la/, [?f??kul?]

Noun

facula f (genitive faculae); first declension

1. small torch

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Vulgar Latin: *facla
  • Old Occitan:
    • Catalan: falla (“effigy for burning, bonfire”)
  • Romanian: fachie
  • Romansch: facla
  • ? Old High German: faccala, vackel
    • Alemannic German: Fachele
    • German: Fackel
      • ? Macedonian: ????? (fakel)
      • ? Russian: ????? (fakel)
    • Luxembourgish: Fakel
    • Rhine Franconian:

      Pennsylvania German: Fackel

    • ? Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic: ?????

      Latin: baklja

    • ? Slovak: fak?a
    • ? Slovene: bakla
• Vulgar Latin: *facucla
  • Old Portuguese:
    • Portuguese: fagulha (“spark”), faúlha
• Vulgar Latin: *fascla (crossed with fascis (“bundle”))
  • Old Portuguese: facha
    • Galician: facha, facho
    • Portuguese: facha, facho
  • Old Spanish: facha
    • Spanish: hacha
• Vulgar Latin: *flacula
  • Italian: fiaccola
    • ? Maltese: fjakkla
  • Romanian: flac?r? (“flame”)
• ? Albanian: flakë (“flame”) (possibly)
• ? Bulgarian: ????? (fakla)
  • ? Romanian: facl? (or from Greek)
• ? Bulgarian: ?????? (faklija)
  • ? Romanian: f?clie (or a diminutive of facl?, or from Serbo-Croatian)
• ? Catalan: fàcula
• ? Dutch: fakkel
• ? English: facula
• ? Greek: ????? (fákla)
  • ? Romanian: facl? (or from Bulgarian)
• ? Hungarian: fáklya
• ? Italian: facola
• ? Low German: Fachel
• ? Old English: fæcele
• ? Portuguese: fácula
• ? Serbo-Croatian: faklja
  • ? Romanian: facl? (or a diminutive of facl?, or from Bulgarian)
• ? Spanish: fácula
• ? 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’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• facula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• facula in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

English

Alternative forms

• fæcula
• faecula

Etymology

From Latin faecula, diminutive of faex (“residue, dregs”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f?kj?l?/

Noun

fecula (countable and uncountable, plural feculas or feculae)

1. Starchy sediment extracted from plants, especially those which are used as food.

See also

• arrowroot
• cornstarch
• sago
• tapioca

Anagrams

• Cefalu, Cefalù