different between ancille vs ancilla

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

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