facula

See also: Facula

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin facula (“little torch”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈfækjʊlə/
  • Audio (Southern England):(file)

Noun

facula (plural faculae)

  1. (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 […]

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Latin

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Noun

facula f (genitive faculae); first declension

  1. small torch

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative facula faculae
genitive faculae faculārum
dative faculae faculīs
accusative faculam faculās
ablative faculā faculīs
vocative facula faculae

Descendants

  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: falcola (“candle”) (dialectal)

Derivates:

  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *faccula
    • → Proto-West Germanic: *fakkulā (see there for further descendants)
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *facla
    • Balkano-Romance:
    • Italo-Romance:
      • Italian: faglia (archaic, dialectal)
    • Rhaeto-Romance:
      • Romansch: facla
    • Gallo-Romance:
      • Catalan: falla
      • Occitan: falha
      • Old French: faille
      • → Andalusian Arabic: فَلْيَة (falya), فَلْيَا (falyā)
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *facucula
    • Ibero-Romance:
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *fascula (crossed with fascis)
  • ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *flaccula
    • Balkano-Romance:
    • Italo-Romance:
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Gallo-Italic of Sicily: ciàccara

Borrowings:

  • Sorted:
    • → Catalan: fàcula
    • → English: facula
    • → French: facule
    • → Italian: facola
    • → Portuguese: fácula
    • → Spanish: fácula
  • Unsorted:
    • → Bulgarian: факла (fakla), факлия (faklija)
    • → Greek: φάκλα (fákla)
    • → Hungarian: fáklya
    • → Romanian: faclă, făclie (see both etymologies)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: faklja
    • → Swedish: fackla

References

  • “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’s 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
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