fiscella

From Latin fiscella.

• IPA^(key): /fiʃˈʃɛl.la/
• Rhymes: -ɛlla
• Hyphenation: fi‧scèl‧la

fiscella f (plural fiscelle)

1. a conical wicker basket used to drain fresh ricotta

   Synonym: (made of plastic material suitable for food use) fuscella

• → Maltese: bixkilla, bexkilla

• fallisce

From fiscina (“small wicker basket”) +‎ -la (feminine diminutive suffix).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /fisˈkel.la/, [fɪs̠ˈkɛlːʲä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /fiʃˈʃel.la/, [fiʃˈʃɛlːä]

fiscella f (genitive fiscellae); first declension

1. small wicker basket

First-declension noun.

• “fiscella”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “fiscella”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• fiscella in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.