English

Noun

sportula ‎(plural sportulae)

1. A gift or present; a prize.
   • South

     To feed luxuriously, to frequent sports and theatres, to run for the sportula.

Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of sporta ‎(“basket”).

Noun

sportula f ‎(genitive sportulae); first declension

1. small basket, especially one used to distribute gifts to clients
2. gift

Inflection

First declension.

Descendants

• Finnish: sportteli
• German: Sportel
• Swedish: sportel

References

• sportula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• sportula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• SPORTULA in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “sportula”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
• sportula in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• sportula in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin