pergula

pergula (plural pergulas or pergulae)

1. Alternative form of pergola

• earplug, graupel, plaguer

The origin is uncertain. Has been compared to Lithuanian pérgas (“canoe”), Old Church Slavonic прагъ (pragŭ, “doorpost”), Old Norse forkr (“bar, stick”), but the meanings are too divergent.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈper.ɡu.la/, [ˈpɛr.ɡʊ.ɫa]

pergula f (genitive pergulae); first declension

1. A booth, stall or shop in front of a house
2. A hut or hovel
3. A brothel
4. An arbour
5. A framework supporting a vine or plant

First declension.

• Albanian: pjergull
• Aromanian: pergurã
• English: pergola
• Italian: pergola, pergula
• Romanian: pârghie

• pergula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• pergula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pergula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• pergula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• pergula in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• pergula in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 460