English

Proper noun

Vulpecula

1. (astronomy) A faint autumn constellation in the northern sky.

Derived terms

• Vulpeculae

Translations

Latin

Alternative forms

• volpēcula

Noun

vulpēcula f ‎(genitive vulpēculae); first declension

1. diminutive of vūlpes ‎(“fox”)
2. A little fox

Declension

First declension.

See also

• vulpēs
• vulpīnus

Descendants

• Old French: goupil, vorpil, volpil
  • French: goupil
• Old Leonese:
  • Asturian: vulpeya
• Old Portuguese: golpella
  • Portuguese: golpelha
• Old Provençal:
  • Catalan: volpell, volpitz
  • Occitan: volpìlh
• Old Spanish: vulpeja, golpeja, gulpeja
  • Spanish: vulpeja

References

• vulpecula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “vulpecula”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.