infula

Borrowed from Latin īnfula.

infula (plural infulas or infulae)

1. A fillet of white wool, worn on the head by ancient Roman priests.
2. A head covering worn by early Christian priests.
3. A ribbon on a bishop's mitre.

• Fulani, unfail

From Latin īnfula.

• IPA^(key): /ˈin.fu.la/
• Rhymes: -infula
• Hyphenation: ìn‧fu‧la

infula f (plural infule)

1. infula

• fulani

Perhaps related to filum with an earlier īnfila. For the ablaut, compare the forms recupero and recipero. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.fu.la/, [ˈĩːfʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈin.fu.la/, [ˈiɱfulä]

īnfula f (genitive īnfulae); first declension

1. A fillet of white and red wool, knotted at intervals with a ribbon (vitta) as a braid and worn on the head by ancient Roman priests.
2. A head covering worn by early Christian priests.
3. A ribbon on a bishop's mitre.
4. a mark of distinction, token, recognition
   • C.730 AD, Beda Venerabilis Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum.III.1:

     Qui uterque rex, ut terreni regni infulas sortitus est, sacramenta regni caelestis, quibus initiatus erat, anathematizando prodidit, [...]

     Both kings, just as they received their place of governance, betrayed in their wicked behavior the holy sacraments to which they had once been introduced [...]

First-declension noun.

• “infula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “infula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• infula 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)
• infula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “infula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “infula”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin