# situla
## English
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin situla.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsɪtjuːlə/

### Noun

situla (plural situlae or situlas)
* (archaeology) A deep ceramic vase with a wide opening.

#### Related terms

* situla art
* situla culture
* situlate
* situliform

#### Translations
### Further reading

* situla on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Anagrams

* tulasi, situal

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin situla (“vessel for water”), of uncertain origin. Doublet of secchia.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈsi.tu.la/
* Rhymes: -itula
* Hyphenation: sì‧tu‧la

### Noun

situla f (plural situle)
* (archaeology) a kind of metallic vase

### Further reading

* situla in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

### Anagrams

* saluti

## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈsi.tu.la/, [ˈs̠ɪt̪ʊɫ̪ä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈsi.tu.la/, [ˈsiːt̪ulä]

### Etymology 1

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

#### Alternative forms

* situlus (Classical Latin)
* siclus (Late Latin)
* situlum (Medieval Latin)

#### Noun

situla f (genitive situlae); first declension
* a vessel used to hold water
** a bucket or pail, especially one used to draw water from a well
** (Ecclesiastical Latin) a vessel for holding holy water
** (Medieval Latin) a measure of capacity for liquids
* a voting urn (for drawing lots or holding voting tablets); loosely, a ballot box
** a basin, jar, urn, vel sim. on a monument

##### Declension

First-declension noun.

##### Synonyms

* (vessel for holding water, bucket, pail): hama
* (voting urn): sitella

##### Derived terms

* sitella
* situlārius
* situlifōrmis

##### Descendants

* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: secchia
* North Italian:
** Friulian: segle
** Ladin: segla, sedla
** Ligurian: séggia
** Piedmontese: sia, sija, segia, sigia ⇒ sigèla, sigilin
* Gallo-Romance:
** Franco-Provençal: sèlye
** French: seille (regional)
** Occitan: selha
* Ibero-Romance:
** Galician: sella
** Portuguese: selha
* Borrowings:
** →? Albanian: shek
** → Byzantine Greek: σίτλα (sítla) (see there for further descendants)
** → English: situla
** → French: situle
** → Italian: situla
** → Portuguese: sítula
** → Romanian: situlă
** → Spanish: sítula
Reflexes of the masculine variant situlus:
* Dalmatian:
** sidlo
*** → Serbo-Croatian: си̏дло, sȉdlo
* Italo-Romance:
** Italian: secchio
** Neapolitan: sicchio, secchio, sicchiu
** Sicilian: sicchiu
* North Italian:
** ⇒ Piedmontese: sion
** Venetan: sécio
*** → Serbo-Croatian: си̏ћ, sȉć
* Gallo-Romance:
** Gascon: selh (Béarnais)
** Poitevin-Saintongeais: seil
* Borrowings:
** →? Middle High German: sīdel
*** German: Seidel
**** Czech: žejdlík

#### References

* “sĭtŭla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “sĭtŭlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* SITULA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* SITULUS in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
* sĭtŭla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 1,450/1.
* sĭtŭlus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette: “1,450/1”
* “situla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “situla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
* “situla” on page 1,775/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
* “situlus” on page 1,775/1 of the Oxford Latin Dictionary (1st ed., 1968–82)
* Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “situla”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 974/2
* ↑ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “situla”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 2, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 548

### Etymology 2

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

#### Noun

situla n
* nominative/accusative/vocative plural of situlum