cistula

From cista (“a trunk, a chest, a casket”) +‎ -ula (diminutive suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkis.tu.la/, [ˈkɪs̠t̪ʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃis.tu.la/, [ˈt͡ʃist̪ulä]

cistula f (genitive cistulae); first declension

1. a basket
   • c. 190 BCE – 185 BCE, Plautus, Amphitryon :

     Ubi patera nunc est? —In cistulā.

     Where is the dish now? —In the basket.

2. Diminutive of cista: a small chest

First-declension noun.

• cistella

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