ampulla

From Latin ampulla.

• IPA^(key): /æmˈpʊlə/

ampulla (plural ampullas or ampullae)

1. (historical) An Ancient Roman two-handled vessel.
2. A vessel for containing consecrated wine or oil.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin, published 2003, page 8:

     Miraculously moist, the chrism was kept in an ampulla in Reims cathedral where the coronations of the kings of France were held.

3. (anatomy) The dilated end of a duct.
4. (botany) The spongiole of a root.

• IPA^(key): [ˈɒmpulːɒ]
• Hyphenation: am‧pul‧la
• Rhymes: -lɒ

ampulla (plural ampullák)

1. ampoule

• ampulla in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
• ampulla in Ittzés, Nóra (ed.). A magyar nyelv nagyszótára (‘A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published A–ez as of 2024)

From amphora +‎ -la.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /amˈpul.la/, [ämˈpʊlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /amˈpul.la/, [ämˈpulːä]

ampulla f (genitive ampullae); first declension

1. a two-handled vessel with a swollen middle
2. (figuratively) swelling words, bombast
3. (Medieval Latin, generally) liturgical flask
4. (Medieval Latin, New Latin, figuratively) bladder; blister, swelling

First-declension noun.

• ampullāceus
• ampullārius
• ampullor
• ampullōsus

• “ampulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “ampulla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• “ampulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “ampulla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• ampulla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• ampulla in Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (1967– ) Mittellateinisches Wörterbuch, Munich: C.H. Beck
• R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “ampulla”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources‎, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC

• amprulla

Borrowed from Latin ampulla, derived from amphora.

• IPA^(key): /amˈpulla/

ampulla f (plural ampullas)

1. (Limba Sarda Comuna) bottle

   Hypernym: istèrgiu