squilla

From Latin squilla, from Ancient Greek σκίλλα (skílla).

• Rhymes: -ɪlə

squilla (plural squillas or squillae)

1. A dinner bell, (historical) a shrill little bell used to signal dinner for medieval monks.
2. (botany, obsolete) The squill, the sea onion.
3. (zoology) The mantis shrimp (Squilla mantis) or other members of the genus Squilla.
4. (zoology, obsolete) An insect resembling the mantis shrimp.

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• Encyclopædia Britannica, 9th ed., "Bell".
• Henry Beauchamp Walters, Church Bells of England, page 3
• Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Music, Vol. 2, page 453
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1st ed. "squilla, n." Oxford University Press (Oxford), 1915

squilla

1. inflection of squillare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• scilla

Borrowed from Ancient Greek σκίλλα (skílla, “squill, Urginea maritima”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈskʷil.la/, [ˈs̠kʷɪlːʲä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈskwil.la/, [ˈskwilːä]

squilla f (genitive squillae); first declension

1. (botany) The squill or sea onion.
2. A shrill little dinner bell used by medieval monks.
3. A kind of shrimp

First-declension noun.

• → French: squille
• Galician: esquía, esquila
• Translingual: Squilla

• “squilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “squilla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• squilla 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)