glaebula

== Latin == === Alternative forms === glēbula === Etymology === From glaeba (“clod of earth”) +‎ -ula (diminutive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ˈɡɫae̯.bʊ.ɫa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈɡlɛː.bu.la] === Noun === glaebula f (genitive glaebulae); first declension a small clod, a little lump (usually of soil) (by extension) a small plot of land, a little farm ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Angevin: louâbre ⇒ louâbreux, louâbru, louâbrer Corsican: ghielba, ghierba Sardinian: leura (Campidanese) → English: glaebule === References === “glaebula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “glaebula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “glaebula”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 4: G H I, page 152