-ula

From Latin -ula. Cognate with Proto-Germanic *-ilaz, whence no longer productive English -le (as in dimple and nozzle), Dutch -el, German -el.

-ula

1. Used to form taxonomic names, usually of genera; small-.

• See -ula at Wikispecies.

Borrowed from Latin -ula.^[1] Doublet of -ule.

-ula

1. Forming diminutive nouns.

   ‎marimba + ‎-ula → ‎marimbula

   ‎ameba + ‎-ula → ‎amebula

• The suffix is not very productive in English and most common in words directly borrowed from Latin.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Unproductive suffix in Czech. Compare Russian -у́ля (-úlja) and Polish -ula.

• IPA^(key): [ ula]

-ula f

1. forms feminine nouns, usually endearing

   ‎papať + ‎-ula → ‎papula

   ‎šikovný + ‎-ula → ‎šikula

• -ula in Slovník afixů užívaných v češtině, 2017

-u +‎ -la

-ula (front vowel harmony variant -ylä, linguistic notation -UlA)

1. Forms diminutive nouns.

• The suffix is productive. See, for instance, vempula.

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *-tlom, *-dʰlom, suffix forming instrumental nouns, with simplification of the suffix-initial stop when it came after another stop. However, the details of the development are debated.

Alternatively, related to the suffix -ulus used to form some deverbal agent nouns such as gerulus, gerula.^[2]

Compare instrument nouns in -ulum.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u.la/, [ʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /u.la/, [ulä] (stressed on the antepenult)

-ula f (genitive -ulae); first declension

1. Noun suffix denoting instrument.

   ‎regō + ‎-ula → ‎rēgula

   ‎tegō + ‎-ula → ‎tēgula

First-declension noun.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• -ula: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u.la/, [ʊɫ̪ä]
• -ula: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /u.la/, [ulä]
• -ulā: (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /u.laː/, [ʊɫ̪äː]
• -ulā: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /u.la/, [ulä]

-ula

1. inflection of -ulus:
   1. nominative/vocative feminine singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative neuter plural

-ulā

1. ablative feminine singular of -ulus

• Sihler, Andrew L. (1995) New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Compare Russian -у́ля (-úlja).

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ˈu.la/

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• Rhymes: -ula
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-ula f

1. forms feminine nouns, usually endearing

   ‎baba + ‎-ula → ‎babula

• -ula in Polish dictionaries at PWN