ampulla

From Latin ampulla. Doublet of ampoule.

• IPA^(key): /æmˈpʊlə/

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ampulla (plural ampullas or ampullae)

1. (historical) An Ancient Roman two-handled vessel.
2. A vessel for containing consecrated wine or oil.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 8:

     Miraculously moist, the chrism was kept in an ampulla in Reims cathedral where the coronations of the kings of France were held.

3. (anatomy) The dilated end of a duct.
4. (botany) The spongiole of a root.

Borrowed from Latin ampulla.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒmpulːɒ]
• Rhymes: -lɒ
• Hyphenation: am‧pul‧la

ampulla (plural ampullák)

1. ampoule (a small hermetically sealed vial, often used to contain a sterile solution suitable for injection)

• ampulla in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• ampulla in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2026).

From amphora + -la.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [amˈpʊl.la]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [amˈpul.la]

ampulla f (genitive ampullae); first declension

1. small amphora, phial, flask (properly made like a small amphora, with two small handles and a swollen middle, but with the chief attribute being that it is a small bottle; made by the Romans of various materials, including leather, glass)

   Hypernym: vās

2. (figuratively, chiefly plural) swelling words, bombast
3. (Medieval Latin, New Latin, figuratively) bladder; blister, swelling

First-declension noun.

• “ampulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ampulla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “ampulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ampulla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ampulla”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• ampulla in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ), Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “ampulla”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎^[1], London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC

• amprulla

Borrowed from Latin ampulla, derived from amphora.

• IPA^(key): /amˈpulla/

ampulla f (plural ampullas)

1. (Limba Sarda Comuna) bottle

   Hypernym: istèrgiu