navicula

== English == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin nāvicula. === Noun === navicula (plural naviculae) (Christianity) A thurible in the shape of a boat. ==== See also ==== nef == Latin == === Etymology === From nāvis (“ship”) + -cula (diminutive suffix). === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [naːˈwɪ.kʊ.ɫa] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [naˈviː.ku.la] === Noun === nāvicula f (genitive nāviculae); first declension diminutive of nāvis: a small ship ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. === References === “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.