trulla

trulla

1. inflection of trullar:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

trulla (plural trullas)

1. trowel

Diminutive of trua (“ladle”). This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

trulla f (genitive trullae); first declension

1. small ladle or scoop

First-declension noun.

• Middle French: truelle
  • English: trowel
  • French: truelle
  • → Galician: truel
• ⇒ Galician: trollo (from trullium)
• → Greek: τρούλος (troúlos), τούρλα (toúrla)
• Portuguese: trolha

• “trulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “trulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• trulla in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• trulla in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “trulla”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “trulla”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin