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subula

subula

Latin

Noun

sūbula f ‎(genitive sūbulae); first declension

  1. shoemaker's awl

Inflection

First declension.

Case Singular Plural
nominative sūbula sūbulae
genitive sūbulae sūbulārum
dative sūbulae sūbulīs
accusative sūbulam sūbulās
ablative sūbulā sūbulīs
vocative sūbula sūbulae

Related terms

Descendants

  • Aromanian: sulã
  • French: subule
  • Greek: σούβλα f ‎(soúvla, “spit”)
  • Italian: subbia
  • Portuguese: sovela
  • Romanian: sulă
  • Spanish: subilla

References

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *syuh₁-dʰleh₂, which consists of the root *syuh₁- ‎(“sew”) and the suffix *-dʰlom ‎(“tool suffix”). This becomes the Latin derivation suō ‎(“to sew”) +‎ -bula. Cognate to Russian шило ‎(šilo, “awl”) and Czech šídlo ‎(“awl”), and to Proto-Germanic *siwjaną ‎(“to sew”).

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