navicula

Learned borrowing from Latin nāvicula.

navicula (plural naviculae)

1. (Christianity) A thurible in the shape of a boat.

• nef

From nāvis (“ship”) +‎ -cula (diminutive suffix).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /naːˈu̯i.ku.la/, [näːˈu̯ɪkʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /naˈvi.ku.la/, [näˈviːkulä]

nāvicula f (genitive nāviculae); first declension

1. diminutive of nāvis: a small ship

First-declension noun.

• “navicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “navicula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• navicula 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)
• navicula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.