acucula

Latin

Etymology

From acū- (“needle”) +‎ -cula (diminutive ending). Attested beginning in the fourth century CE.^[1]

Noun

acūcula f (genitive acūculae); first declension (Late Latin)

1. small needle

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	acūcula	acūculae
Genitive	acūculae	acūculārum
Dative	acūculae	acūculīs
Accusative	acūculam	acūculās
Ablative	acūculā	acūculīs
Vocative	acūcula	acūculae

Descendants

• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: agucchia
• North Italian:
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Emilian: (Bologna) agåccia, (Modena, Carpi) gùcia, (Mantua) gùccia
    • Ligurian: agóggia
    • Lombard: (Western) guggia, (Eastern) gögia, gógia
    • Piedmontese: gucia, agucia, uja
  • Romansch: aguoglia, guglia, guila, guoglia, vila
  • Venetian: gucia, ucia ⇒ guxela, guciaròło
    • → Cimbrian: gutciaröl
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: agulla
  • Franco-Provençal: agouelye
  • Old French: aguille
    • Champenois: agueil
    • French: aiguille
    • Norman:

      Guernsey: edjulle

      Jersey: adgulle, aidgulle

      Normandy: aigùule

    • Walloon: aweye
  • Occitan: agulha
    • → Italian: aguglia
    • → Sicilian: agugghia, avugghia, 'gugghia, 'vugghia, augghia, vugghia, ugghia
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: agulla
  • Asturian: aguya
  • Old Galician-Portuguese: agulla
    • Galician: agulla
    • Portuguese: agulha
  • Spanish: aguja
    • → Tagalog: aguha

References

• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “acūcŭla”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 118

1. “aiguille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.