facula

See also: Facula

English

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Latin faculabor.

English facula

Borrowed from Latin facula (“little torch”).

facula (plural faculae)

(astronomy) A bright spot or patch between sunspots.
- c. 1933-1934, Hugh MacDiarmid, On a Raised Beach:
  Glaucous, hoar, enfouldered, cyathiform, / Making mere faculae of the sun and moon […]

region on the sun's surface

Diminutive from fax (“torch”) +‎ -ula.

facula f (genitive faculae); first declension

First-declension noun.

Derivates:

⇒ Vulgar Latin: *faccula
- → Proto-West Germanic: *fakkulā (see there for further descendants)
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *facla
- Balkano-Romance:
  - Romanian: fachie
- Italo-Romance:
  - Italian: faglia (archaic, dialectal)
- Rhaeto-Romance:
  - Romansh: facla
- Gallo-Romance:
  - Catalan: falla
  - Occitan: falha
  - Old French: faille
  - → Andalusian Arabic: فَلْيَة (falya), فَلْيَا (falyā)
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *facucula
- Ibero-Romance:
  - Old Galician-Portuguese: fagulla
    - Portuguese: fagulha, faúlha
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *fascula (crossed with fascis)
- Ibero-Romance:
  - Old Galician-Portuguese: facha
    - Galician: facha, facho
    - Portuguese: facha, facho
  - Old Spanish: facha
    - Spanish: hacha
⇒ Vulgar Latin: *flaccula
- Balkano-Romance:
  - Romanian: flacără
  - → Albanian: flakë
- Italo-Romance:
  - Italian: fiaccola
    - → Maltese: fjakkla
    - → Turkish: fiyaka
- Gallo-Italic:
  - Gallo-Italic of Sicily: ciàccara

Borrowings:

“facula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“facula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
"facula", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
“facula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
facula in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016