spatula

See also: Spatula and spatulă

English

A plastic kitchen spatula for turning and lifting

Spatula for scraping

Etymology

From Latin spatula (“a flat piece”), the diminutive form of spatha (“broad or flat tool”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “a broad wood or metal blade”). Compare spatha and spathe.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈspætjʊlə/, /ˈspætʃʊlə/, /ˈspætʃələ/
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Noun

spatula (plural spatulas or spatulae or spatulæ)

A kitchen utensil consisting of a flat surface attached to a long handle, used for turning, lifting, or stirring food.
(Canada, US) A kitchen utensil consisting of a flexible surface attached to a long handle, used for scraping the sides of bowls.
(dated) A palette knife.
(chemistry) A thin hand tool, often made of nickel, for handling chemicals or other materials, when weighing, etc.
A croupier's tool for turning up cards in a casino.
- 1963, Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service
  The croupier delicately faced her other two cards with the tip of his spatula. A four! She had lost!

Synonyms

(kitchen utensil for turning and lifting): fish slice, turner, flipper
(kitchen utensil for scraping): scraper, dough scraper

Derived terms

spatular
spatulate

Related terms

spatular
spatulate

Translations

kitchen utensil for turning and lifting

Albanian: please add this translation if you can
Arabic: ملعقة الصيدلي‎ (maleaqat alsydli)
Armenian: բահակ (hy) (bahak), խառնիչ (hy) (xaṙničʿ)
Bulgarian: шпатула (špatula)
Catalan: espàtula (ca) f
Chinese:
Cantonese: 鑊鏟, 镬铲 (wok⁶ caan²)

Mandarin: 鍋鏟, 锅铲 (guōchǎn)
Czech: špátle f
Danish: palet c, paletkniv c
Dutch: spatel (nl) c
Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: lasta (fi)
French: spatule (fr) f
German: Pfannenwender (de) m
Greek: σπάτουλα (el) f (spátoula)
Icelandic: spaði (is) m
Irish: spadal m
Italian: spatola (it) f
Japanese: 箆 (ja) (へら, hera), スパーテル (supāteru), フライ返し (フライがえし, furaigaeshi) (slotted spatula)

Khmer: វែកកូរ (vɛɛk kou)
Korean: 뒤집개 (ko) (dwijimgae)
Kurdish: hevstîv (ku), spatûla (ku)
Malay: sudip
Maori: koko
Mongolian: хусуур (mn) (husuur)
Navajo: bee náʼayooʼniłí
Norwegian: stekespade
Persian: کفگیر‎ (fa)
Polish: łopatka (pl) f, szpachelka f
Portuguese: espátula (pt) f
Russian: лопа́точка (ru) f (lopátočka), лопа́тка (ru) f (lopátka)
Spanish: espátula (es) f
Swedish: stekspade c
Tagalog: espatula
Tajik: кафгир (tg) (kafgir)
Thai: ตะหลิว (th) (dtà-lǐu)
Turkish: spatula (tr)
Ukrainian: шпатель f (shpatelʹ)
Vietnamese: dao bay, que phết

kitchen utensil for scraping bowls

Czech: stěrka f
German: Teigspatel m, Teigschaber (de) m

Persian: لیسک‎ (fa) (lisak)
Swedish: slickepott (sv)

palette knife

Danish: palet c, paletkniv c
Dutch: spatel (nl) c, steker (nl) m
Finnish: palettiveitsi (fi)

German: Spachtelmesser n
Italian: mestichino (it) m, paletta (it) f, spatola (it) f
Tagalog: espatula

thin hand tool for handling chemicals or other materials

Danish: spatel (da) c
Dutch: spatel (nl) c
Finnish: spaatteli (fi)

German: Spatel m
Russian: шпа́тель (ru) m (špátelʹ)
Swedish: spatel c

The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout#Translations.

Translations to be checked

French: ^{(please verify)} spatule (fr) f (3)

Italian: ^{(please verify)} spatola (it) f (1,2,3)

Latin

Alternative forms

spathula

Etymology

Diminutive from spatha (“broad, flat tool”) +‎ -ula.

Pronunciation

(Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈspa.tu.la/, [ˈspa.tʊ.ɫa]

Noun

spatula f (genitive spatulae); first declension

a broad, flat piece.
spatula porcina — "leg of pork".
a little palm frond.
(Late Latin) a scapula (shoulder blade).
(Late Latin) a spoon or spatula (kitchenware).

Inflection

First declension.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	spatula	spatulae
Genitive	spatulae	spatulārum
Dative	spatulae	spatulīs
Accusative	spatulam	spatulās
Ablative	spatulā	spatulīs
Vocative	spatula	spatulae

Derived terms

spatulātus, spathulātus

Related terms

spatha

Descendants

Albanian: shpatull
Asturian: espalda
Catalan: espatlla, espàtula (borrowing)
English: spatula (borrowing)
French: épaule, spatule (borrowing)
Friulian: spale
Greek: σπάτουλα (spátoula) (borrowing)
Italian: spalla, spatola (borrowing)

Occitan: espatla, espatula (borrowing)
Portuguese: espalda, espádua, espátula (borrowing)
Romanian: spatulă (borrowing)
Romansch: spatla
Sicilian: spadda
Spanish: espalda, espátula (borrowing)
Venetian: spała, spatoła (borrowing), spadoła
Walloon: spale

References

spatula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
spatula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
spatula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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