vetula
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Feminine of vetulus (“old man”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯e.tu.la/, [ˈu̯ɛt̪ʊɫ̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈve.tu.la/, [ˈvɛːt̪ulä]
Noun
[edit]vetula f (genitive vetulae); first declension
- old woman
- 1st or 2nd century, Juvenal, Satires, translated by Paul Allen Miller in Latin Verse Satire: An Anthology and Critical Reader, p.381.
- mortua, non vetula ("a dead woman, not an old one")
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1st or 2nd century, Juvenal, Satires, translated by Paul Allen Miller in Latin Verse Satire: An Anthology and Critical Reader, p.381.
- a corn dolly or small figurine, shaped as an old woman; a term in use among the Druidic pagans of Flanders in the 7th century
- 7th century AD, Vita Eligii (The Life of St. Eligius), sermons of St. Eligius, translated by Jo Ann McNamara.[1]
- Nullus in Kalendas Januarii nefanda et ridiculosa, vetulas aut cervulos vel iotticos ("Do not..make vetulas, little deer or iotticos")
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 7th century AD, Vita Eligii (The Life of St. Eligius), sermons of St. Eligius, translated by Jo Ann McNamara.[1]
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vetula | vetulae |
Genitive | vetulae | vetulārum |
Dative | vetulae | vetulīs |
Accusative | vetulam | vetulās |
Ablative | vetulā | vetulīs |
Vocative | vetula | vetulae |
References
[edit]- vetula 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)
- Elskens, Etienne, compiler. Latin Words, Genealogical Society of Flemish Americans.[2]
- Miller, Paul Allen. Latin Verse Satire: An Anthology and Critical Reader, p.380-381. [3]
- Vita Eligii (The Life of St. Eligius) (in English)[4] - US translation
- Vita di Eligio, SRM 4, II, 16. (in Latin)[5]
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