navicula

Learned borrowing from Latin nāvicula.

navicula (plural naviculae)

1. (Christianity) A thurible in the shape of a boat.

• nef

From nāvis (“ship”) +‎ -cula (diminutive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [naːˈwɪ.kʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [naˈviː.ku.la]

nāvicula f (genitive nāviculae); first declension

1. diminutive of nāvis: a small ship
   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate John.6.13:

     Altera die, turba, quae stabat trans mare, vidit quia navicula alia non erat ibi nisi una, [...]

     On another day, a crowd, who were standing across the sea, saw there was not another small ship there except for one, [...]

First-declension noun.

• “navicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “navicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "navicula", 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)
• “navicula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.