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ancilla
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English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
ancilla (plural ancillae)
- (rare) A maid.
- 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 306:
- ‘And pass me that towel,’ added Ada, but the ancilla was picking up coins she had dropped in her haste […]
- An auxiliary or accessory
- (computing) An ancilla bit
- The circuit uses a single ancilla for each stabilizer generator.
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Latin
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [aŋˈkɪl.la]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [an̠ʲˈt͡ʃil.la]
Noun
ancilla f (genitive ancillae); first declension
- maid, slave-girl
- handmaiden
Declension
First-declension noun.
Derived terms
- ancillāriolus
- ancillāris
- ancillor
- ancillula
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References
- “ancilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ancilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- "ancilla", 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)
- “ancilla”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “ancilla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “ancilla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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