different between ancille vs ancile

English

Etymology

From Middle English ancille, ancele, from Old French ancele, ancelle, from Latin ancilla.

Noun

ancille (plural ancilles)

1. (obsolete) A maidservant; a handmaid.
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, An ABC (The Prayer of Our Lady)

     Thee whom God ches to mooder for humblesse!

     From his ancille he made the maistresse

     Of hevene and erthe, oure bille up for to beede.

Anagrams

• allenic

French

Noun

ancille f (plural ancilles)

1. Alternative form of ancelle

Further reading

• “ancille” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

Latin

Noun

ancile (plural anciles)

1. (historical, Roman antiquity) The sacred shield of the Ancient Romans, said to have fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome.

Anagrams

• Celina, NELIAC, alcine, inlace

Italian

Etymology

Latin

Noun

ancile m (plural ancili)

1. The sacred shield of the Ancient Romans.

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *am?ikaidslis, from Proto-Indo-European *kh?eyd-. Compare ambi-, caed?

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /an?ki?.le/, [ä??ki????]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /an?t??i.le/, [?n???t??i?l?]

Noun

anc?le n (genitive anc?lis); third declension

1. The sacred shield said to have fallen from heaven in the reign of Numa. It was the palladium of Rome.

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem).

The genitive plural can be also anc?liorum.

References

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