assula

Diminutive of axis / assis (“axis, wheel, axle”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈas.su.la/, [ˈäs̠ːʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈas.su.la/, [ˈäsːulä]

assula f (genitive assulae); first declension

1. splinter, shaving, chip, shiver
2. shingle

First-declension noun.

• assulātim
• assulōsē

• Late Latin: astla (see there for further descendants)

• “assula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• assula 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)
• assula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.