# ampulla
## English
### Etymology

From Latin ampulla.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /æmˈpʊlə/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

ampulla (plural ampullas or ampullae)
* (historical) An Ancient Roman two-handled vessel.
* A vessel for containing consecrated wine or oil.
** 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 8:Miraculously moist, the chrism was kept in an ampulla in Reims cathedral where the coronations of the kings of France were held.
* (anatomy) The dilated end of a duct.
* (botany) The spongiole of a root.

#### Derived terms

* ampullaceous
* ampulla of Lorenzini
* ampulla of Vater
* ampullar
* ampullary
* ampullate
* ampullectomy
* ampullofugal

#### Translations
## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈɒmpulːɒ]
* Hyphenation: am‧pul‧la
* Rhymes: -lɒ

### Noun

ampulla (plural ampullák)
* ampoule

#### Declension
### Further reading

* ampulla in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* ampulla in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

## Latin
### Etymology

From amphora +‎ -la.

### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /amˈpul.la/, [ämˈpʊlːʲä]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /amˈpul.la/, [ämˈpulːä]

### Noun

ampulla f (genitive ampullae); first declension
* a two-handled vessel with a swollen middle
* (figuratively) swelling words, bombast
* (Medieval Latin, generally) liturgical flask
* (Medieval Latin, New Latin, figuratively) bladder; blister, swelling

#### Declension

First-declension noun.

#### Derived terms

* ampullāceus
* ampullārius
* ampullor
* ampullōsus

#### Descendants

* Asturian: ampolla, empolla
* Catalan: ampolla
* Old French: ampolle, ampole, ampule, ampoule
** French: ampoule
*** → English: ampoule
*** → Moore: ãmpulli
*** → Persian: آمپول (âmpul)
*** → Turkish: ampul
**** → Laz: ამფული (ampuli)
* Galician: ampola
* Irish: ampaill
* Italian: ampolla
* Portuguese: ampola, empola, âmbula
* Sardinian: ampudda, impodda, ampudha, ampulla, impudha
* Sicilian: mpuḍḍa
* Spanish: ampolla, ámpula
* Venetan: anpola
* → English: ampulla (learned)
* → German: Ampulle (learned)
* → Proto-West Germanic: *ampullā (see there for further descendants)
* → Polish: ampla, ampuła (learned)
* → Serbo-Croatian: ampula, ампула (learned)
* → Russian: а́мпула (ámpula) (learned)

### References

* “ampulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “ampulla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
* “ampulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* “ampulla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
* ampulla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* ampulla in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
* R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “ampulla”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC

## Sardinian
### Alternative forms

* amprulla

### Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ampulla, derived from amphora.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /amˈpulla/

### Noun

ampulla f (plural ampullas)
* (Limba Sarda Comuna) bottle
    Hypernym: istèrgiu