facula

See also: Facula

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin facula (“little torch”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfækjʊlə/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

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Wikipedia

facula (plural faculae)

1. (astronomy) A bright spot or patch between sunspots.
   • c. 1933-1934, Hugh MacDiarmid, On a Raised Beach:

     Glaucous, hoar, enfouldered, cyathiform, / Making mere faculae of the sun and moon […]

Derived terms

• facular

Translations

region on the sun's surface

Arabic: صَيْخَد m (ṣayḵad) Catalan: fàcula (ca) f Czech: fakule (cs) f Esperanto: suntorĉo French: facula (fr) f German: Sonnenfackel (de) f Italian: facula f Latin: facula f Luxembourgish: Sonnefakel f Macedonian: факула f (fakula) Portuguese: fácula f Romanian: faculă solară f Russian: солнечный фа́кел m (solnečnyj fákel)

Anagrams

• faucal

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive from fax (“torch”) +‎ -ula.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈfa.kʊ.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈfaː.ku.la]

Noun

facula f (genitive faculae); first declension

1. small torch

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	facula	faculae
genitive	faculae	faculārum
dative	faculae	faculīs
accusative	faculam	faculās
ablative	faculā	faculīs
vocative	facula	faculae

Descendants

• Catalan: falla (“effigy for burning, bonfire”)
• Romanian: fachie
• Romansch: facla
• → Andalusian Arabic: فَلْيَة (falya), فَلْيَا (falyā)
• Vulgar Latin: *faccula
  • → Proto-West Germanic: *fakkulā (see there for further descendants)
• Vulgar Latin: *facucula
  • Old Galician-Portuguese:
    • Portuguese: fagulha (“spark”), faúlha
• Vulgar Latin: *fascula (crossed with fascis (“bundle”))
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: facha
    • Galician: facha, facho
    • Portuguese: facha, facho
  • Old Spanish: facha
    • Spanish: hacha
• Vulgar Latin: *flaccula
  • Italian: fiaccola (see there for further descendants)
  • Gallo-Italic of Sicily: ciàccara f
  • Romanian: flacără (“flame”)
• →? Albanian: flakë (“flame”)
• → Bulgarian: факла (fakla)
  • → Romanian: faclă (or from Greek)
• → Bulgarian: факлия (faklija)
  • → Romanian: făclie (or a diminutive of faclă, or from Serbo-Croatian)
• → Catalan: fàcula
• → English: facula
• → Greek: φάκλα (fákla)
  • → Romanian: faclă (or from Bulgarian)
• → Hungarian: fáklya
• → Italian: facola
• → Portuguese: fácula
• → Serbo-Croatian: faklja
  • → Romanian: faclă (or from Bulgarian)
    • → Polish: fakła (Podhale dialect; alternatively from German)
• → Spanish: fácula
• → Swedish: fackla

References

• “facula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “facula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "facula", 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)
• “facula”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• facula in Ramminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)), Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016