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English

Etymology

From Latin ancilla (“maid, slave-girl”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æn?s?.l?/
• Rhymes: -?l?

Noun

ancilla (plural ancillae)

1. A maid.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 306:

     ‘And pass me that towel,’ added Ada, but the ancilla was picking up coins she had dropped in her haste […]

2. An auxiliary or accessory

Related terms

• ancillary

Anagrams

• aclinal

Latin

Etymology

From ancula (“maid”) +? -lus.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /an?kil.la/, [ä??k?l??ä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /an?t??il.la/, [?n???t??il??]

Noun

ancilla f (genitive ancillae); first declension

1. maid, slave-girl

Declension

First-declension noun.

Derived terms

Related terms

• ancill?tus
• ancula

References

• ancilla in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ancilla in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ancilla in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• ancilla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• ancilla in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ancilla in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish oncilla, diminutive of snow leopard.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?si?.?/

Noun

oncilla (plural oncillas)

1. Leopardus tigrinus, a small spotted felid found in the tropical rainforests of Central and South America.

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