scandula

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *sked- (“to split, scatter”), from *sek- (“to cut”).

Noun

scandula f (genitive scandulae); first declension

  1. roof-shingle
Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative scandula scandulae
genitive scandulae scandulārum
dative scandulae scandulīs
accusative scandulam scandulās
ablative scandulā scandulīs
vocative scandula scandulae
Descendants

(Note: see also scindula.)

  • Insular Romance:
    • Sicilian: iscannula
  • Balkano-Romance:
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: scandola, scannuia (Cervara)
    • Neapolitan: scannia (Abruzzo)
  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Friulian: scjandula, s'ciàndule
    • Ladin: sciandora, sandla (Comelico)
    • Romansh: scongla, schlonda, ⇒ s-chandella
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Ligurian: scandora
    • Lombard: scandola
      Ticinese: scandla, scandra, szandra
  • Borrowings:

Etymology 2

Noun

scandula f (genitive scandulae); first declension

  1. (Late Latin) alternative form of sandala (“type of grain”)
Descendants

References

Further reading

  • “scandula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • "scandula", 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)
  • “scandula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “scandula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
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