sportula

English

Etymology

Latin sportula (“small basket, by extension a prize”)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈspɔː(ɹ)tjʊlə/, /ˈspɔː(ɹ)t͡ʃələ/

Noun

sportula (plural sportulae)

  1. (archaic) A gift or present; a prize.
    • 1692–1717, Robert South, Twelve Sermons Preached upon Several Occasions, 6th edition, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: […] J[ames] Bettenham, for Jonah Bowyer, […], published 1727, →OCLC:
      To feed luxuriously, to frequent sports and theatres, to run for the sportula.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sportula”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of sporta (“basket”).

Pronunciation

Noun

sportula f (genitive sportulae); first declension

  1. small basket, especially one used to distribute gifts to clients
  2. gift

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative sportula sportulae
Genitive sportulae sportulārum
Dative sportulae sportulīs
Accusative sportulam sportulās
Ablative sportulā sportulīs
Vocative sportula sportulae

Descendants
  • → Finnish: sportteli
  • → German: Sportel
  • → Swedish: sportel

References
  • “sportula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • “sportula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • sportula 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)
  • sportula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • “sportula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • “sportula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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