Latin

Noun

novācula f ‎(genitive novāculae); first declension

1. a sharp knife, dagger, razor

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

• Asturian: navaya
• Catalan: navalla
• Galician: navalla
• Portuguese: navalha, novácula
• Spanish: navaja

References

• novacula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• novacula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “novacula”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• novacula in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers