different between vulpecula vs sagitta

Latin

Alternative forms

• volp?cula

Etymology

From vulp?s (“fox”) +? -cula (diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /u?ul?pe?.ku.la/, [u?o???pe?k???ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /vul?pe.ku.la/, [vul?p??kul?]

Noun

vulp?cula f (genitive vulp?culae); first declension

1. Diminutive of vulp?s (“fox”)
2. A little fox

Declension

First-declension noun.

See also

• vulp?s
• vulp?nus

Descendants

• Old French: golpil, vorpil, volpil
  • French: goupil, goupille
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: vulpeya
• Old Portuguese: golpella
  • Galician: golpella
  • Portuguese: golpelha
• Old Occitan:
  • Catalan: volpell, volpitz
  • Occitan: volpìlh
• Old Spanish: vulpeja, golpeja, gulpeja
  • Spanish: vulpeja

References

• vulpecula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• vulpecula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

English

Etymology

From Latin sagitta (“arrow”).

Noun

sagitta (plural sagittas)

1. The keystone of an arch.
2. (geometry) The distance from a point in a curve to the chord; also, the versed sine of an arc; so called from its resemblance to an arrow resting on the bow and string.
3. (anatomy) The larger of the two otoliths, or ear bones, found in most fishes.

Latin

Etymology

Unknown etymology. Probably from a pre-Latin Mediterranean language.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sa??it.ta/, [s?ä???t??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /sa?d??it.ta/, [s??d??it???]

Noun

sagitta f (genitive sagittae); first declension

1. arrow, bolt
2. (medicine) lancet
3. (botany) arrowhead, a plant of the genus Sagittaria

Declension

First-declension noun.

Related terms

Descendants

See also

• arcus m

References

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