different between inula vs infula

English

Etymology

From Latin inula. Compare elecampane.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /??nj?l?/, /??nj?l?/

Noun

inula (countable and uncountable, plural inulas)

1. Any of several plants of the genus Inula, such as elecampane.
   • 1977, Alistair Horne, A Savage War of Peace, New York Review Books 2006, p. 45:

     In springtime the ruins are a blaze of contrapuntal colour: wild gladioli of magenta, bright yellow inulas and spiky acanthus thrust up among sarcophagi carpeted with tiny blue saxifrage and sprawled over by convolvulus with great pink trumpets.

2. The dried root of such a plant used as a stimulant.

Translations

Further reading

• Inula on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Inula on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• uinal

Italian

Etymology

From Latin inula.

Noun

inula f (plural inule)

1. inula

Latin

Alternative forms

• enula (Medieval Latin)

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?i.nu.la/, [??n???ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?i.nu.la/, [?i?nul?]

Noun

inula f (genitive inulae); first declension

1. Any of several plants of the genus Inula, including elecampane.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• ? English: inula
• ? Italian: inula

References

• inula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• inula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

infula (plural infulas or infulae)

1. A fillet of white wool, worn on the head by ancient Roman priests
2. A head covering worn by early Christian priests
3. A ribbon on a bishop's mitre

Anagrams

• Fulani, unfail

Italian

Noun

infula f (plural infule)

1. infula

Latin

Noun

?nfula f (genitive ?nfulae); first declension

1. infula (all senses)

Declension

First-declension noun.

References

• infula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• infula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• infula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• infula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• infula in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• infula in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin