glaebula

• glēbula

From glaeba (“clod of earth”) + -ula (diminutive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈɡɫae̯.bʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈɡlɛː.bu.la]

glaebula f (genitive glaebulae); first declension

1. a small clod, a little lump (usually of soil)
2. (by extension) a small plot of land, a little farm

First-declension noun.

• Angevin: louâbre ⇒ louâbreux, louâbru, louâbrer
• Corsican: ghielba, ghierba
• Sardinian: leura (Campidanese)
• → English: glaebule

• “glaebula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “glaebula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “glaebula”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 4: G H I, page 152