vetula

Feminine of vetulus (“old man”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu̯e.tu.la/, [ˈu̯ɛt̪ʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈve.tu.la/, [ˈvɛːt̪ulä]

vetula f (genitive vetulae); first declension

1. old woman
   • 1st or 2nd century, Juvenal, Satires, translated by Paul Allen Miller in Latin Verse Satire: An Anthology and Critical Reader, p.381.

     mortua, non vetula ("a dead woman, not an old one")

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

2. a corn dolly or small figurine, shaped as an old woman; a term in use among the Druidic pagans of Flanders in the 7th century
   • 7th century AD, Vita Eligii (The Life of St. Eligius), sermons of St. Eligius, translated by Jo Ann McNamara.

     Nullus in Kalendas Januarii nefanda et ridiculosa, vetulas aut cervulos vel iotticos ("Do not..make vetulas, little deer or iotticos")

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

First-declension noun.

• vetula 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)
• Elskens, Etienne, compiler. Latin Words, Genealogical Society of Flemish Americans.
• Miller, Paul Allen. Latin Verse Satire: An Anthology and Critical Reader, p.380-381.
• Vita Eligii (The Life of St. Eligius) (in English) - US translation
• Vita di Eligio, SRM 4, II, 16. (in Latin)
• Corn dolly on Wikipedia.Wikipedia