ferula

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from Latin ferula (“giant fennel”), whose stalks were once used in punishing schoolboys. Doublet of ferule. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈfɛɹələ/ === Noun === ferula (plural ferulas or ferulae) (obsolete) A ferule. (archaic) A stroke from a cane. (obsolete) The imperial sceptre in the Byzantine Empire. ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Laufer, earful == Latin == === Etymology === Uncertain but perhaps connected to festūca (“stalk, straw”). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈfɛ.rʊ.ɫa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈfɛː.ru.la] === Noun === ferula f (genitive ferulae); first declension giant fennel (Ferula communis) a staff, stick, rod a splint the unramified horn of a young stag ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1984), “caña”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 822 Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “fĕrŭla”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 3: D–F, page 477 “ferula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “ferula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers "ferula", 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) “ferula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette. ferula in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung