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situla.

basin/urn/jar; bucket, vessel for drawing/holding water; urn/basin on monument;

6 characters3 syllables approx.Latina language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈsɪ.tʊ.ɫa]Classical-Latin[ˈsiː.tu.la]
  1. a vessel used to hold water a bucket or pail, especially one used to draw water from a well

    declension-1 · feminine
  2. a vessel used to hold water a vessel for holding holy water

    Ecclesiastical · Latin · declension-1 · feminine
  3. a vessel used to hold water a measure of capacity for liquids

    Medieval-Latin · declension-1 · feminine
  4. a voting urn (for drawing lots or holding voting tablets); loosely, a ballot box

    declension-1 · feminine
  5. a voting urn (for drawing lots or holding voting tablets); loosely, a ballot box a basin, jar, urn, vel sim. on a monument

    declension-1 · feminine
Where this word comes from

Possibly from the same Proto-Indo-European root common to Lithuanian si̇́etas (“sieve”) and Middle Irish sithlad (“the act of sieving”).

noun[ˈsɪ.tʊ.ɫa]Classical-Latin[ˈsiː.tu.la]
  1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of situlum

    accusative · form-of · neuter · nominative · plural · vocative
Where this word comes from

Regularly declined forms of situlum, a neuter Mediaeval by-form of the feminine situla, above.

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