fiscella

Italian

Etymology

From Latin fiscella.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fiʃˈʃɛl.la/
• Rhymes: -ɛlla
• Hyphenation: fi‧scèl‧la

Noun

fiscella f (plural fiscelle)

1. a conical wicker basket used to drain fresh ricotta

   Synonym: (made of plastic material suitable for food use) fuscella

Descendants

• → Maltese: bixkilla, bexkilla (dialectal)

Anagrams

• fallisce

Latin

Etymology

From fiscina (“small wicker basket”) +‎ -la (feminine diminutive suffix).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [fɪsˈkɛl.la]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [fiʃˈʃɛl.la]

Noun

fiscella f (genitive fiscellae); first declension

1. small wicker basket

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	fiscella	fiscellae
genitive	fiscellae	fiscellārum
dative	fiscellae	fiscellīs
accusative	fiscellam	fiscellās
ablative	fiscellā	fiscellīs
vocative	fiscella	fiscellae

Descendants

• Italian: fiscella, fistella
• Sicilian: fasceḍḍa, vasceḍḍa

References

• “fiscella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fiscella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “fiscella”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.