different between squills vs squilla

English

Noun

squills

1. plural of squill

English

Etymology

From Latin squilla, from Ancient Greek ?????? (skílla).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?l?

Noun

squilla (plural squillas or squillae)

1. A dinner bell, (historical) a shrill little bell used to signal dinner for medieval monks.
2. (botany, obsolete) The squill, the sea onion.
3. (zoology) The mantis shrimp (Squilla mantis) or other members of the genus Squilla.
4. (zoology, obsolete) An insect resembling the mantis shrimp.

References

• Squilla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Squilla on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., "Bell".
• Henry Beauchamp Walters, Church Bells of England, page 3
• Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Music, Vol. 2, page 453
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "squilla, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1915

Italian

Verb

squilla

1. third-person singular present indicative of squillare
2. second-person singular imperative of squillare

Latin

Alternative forms

• scilla

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ?????? (skílla, “squill, Urginea maritima”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?sk?il.la/, [?s?k??l??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?skwil.la/, [?skwil??]

Noun

squilla f (genitive squillae); first declension

1. (botany) The squill or sea onion.
2. A shrill little dinner bell used by medieval monks.
3. A kind of shrimp

Declension

First-declension noun.

Descendants

• Translingual: Squilla

References

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