Latin

Alternative forms

• arcla (Vulgar Latin)

Noun

arcula f ‎(genitive arculae); first declension

1. a small chest, box, casket or coffer; small perfume box or jewel casket
2. a windchest of an organ

Inflection

First declension.

Derived terms

• arculārius

Descendants

• Armenian:
  • Old Armenian: արկղ ‎(arkł)
    • Armenian: արկղ ‎(arkł)
• Byzantine Greek: ἄρκλα ‎(árkla)
  • Greek: άρκλα ‎(árkla)

References

• arcula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• arcula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ARCULA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “arcula”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• arcula in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers