decipula

decipula

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *de
Proto-Indo-European *-h₁
Proto-Indo-European *déh₁
Proto-Italic *dē
Latin dē
Latin dē-
Proto-Indo-European *kap-
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *kapyéti
Proto-Italic *kapjō
Old Latin kapiō
Latin capiō
Latin dēcipiō
Latin -ula
Latin dēcipula

    From dēcipiō (“catch, ensnare, entrap, beguile”) + -ula.

    Pronunciation

    Noun

    dēcipula f (genitive dēcipulae); first declension

    1. snare, trap, gin

    Declension

    First-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative dēcipula dēcipulae
    genitive dēcipulae dēcipulārum
    dative dēcipulae dēcipulīs
    accusative dēcipulam dēcipulās
    ablative dēcipulā dēcipulīs
    vocative dēcipula dēcipulae

    Synonyms

    References

    • “decipula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
    • “decipula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
    • decipula in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
    This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.