libella

Borrowed from Latin lībella, diminutive of libra (“balance”). Doublet of level and niveau.

libella (plural libellas)

1. A small balance.
2. A level, or levelling instrument.

• Homophones: libellas, libellât

libella

1. third-person singular past historic of libeller

From lībra +‎ -la.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [liːˈbɛl.la]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [liˈbɛl.la]

lībella f (genitive lībellae); first declension

1. An as (the tenth part of a denarius)
2. A level (builder's tool)

• Used to represent a minute portion of money.

First-declension noun.

• simbella

• “libella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “libella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "libella", 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)
• “libella”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “libella”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “libella”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin