different between fecula vs ferula

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

English

Etymology

Latin ferula (“giant fennel (whose stalks were once used in punishing schoolboys); rod, whip”), from ferire (“to strike”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f???l?/

Noun

ferula (plural ferulas or ferulae)

1. (obsolete) A ferule.

   • He humbles with a ferula the tall ones

2. (archaic) A stroke from a cane.
   • 1916, James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, p.50)

     And Old Barrett has a new way of twisting the note so that you can't open it and fold it again to see how many ferulae you are to get.

3. (obsolete) The imperial sceptre in the Byzantine Empire.

Translations

Anagrams

• Laufer, earful

Latin

Etymology

Uncertain but perhaps connected to fest?ca (“stalk, straw”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?fe.ru.la/, [?f?????ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?fe.ru.la/, [?f???ul?]

Noun

ferula f (genitive ferulae); first declension

1. cane
2. giant fennel or its stalk
3. vocative singular of ferula

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• French: férule
• Spanish: férula, cañaherla, cañaheja
• Translingual: Ferula

Noun

ferul? f

1. ablative singular of ferula

References

• ferula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ferula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ferula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ferula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette