different between ferule vs ferula

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ferula

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?f??u?l/, /?f???l/
• Homophone: ferrule

Noun

ferule (plural ferules)

1. A ruler-shaped instrument, generally used to slap naughty children on the hand.

Translations

Verb

ferule (third-person singular simple present ferules, present participle feruling, simple past and past participle feruled)

1. (transitive) To punish with a ferule.
   • 1862, William S. Woodbridge, Captain Paul's Adventure: A "Charcoal Sketch", Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine, Volume 15, page 72,

     And they were right in their assumption; I could cudgel a great lubberly delinquent of a boy […] but when it came to feruling a girl […] my manhood rebelled […] .

Related terms

• ferulary

Anagrams

• fueler, refuel

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