facula

Borrowed from Latin facula (“little torch”).

facula (plural faculae)

1. (astronomy) A bright spot or patch between sunspots
   • Hugh MacDiarmid, On a Raised Beach

     Glaucous, hoar, enfouldered, cyathiform, / Making mere faculae of the sun and moon […]

• faucal

Diminutive from fax (“torch”) +‎ -ula.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈfa.ku.la/, [ˈfa.kʊ.ɫa]

facula f (genitive faculae); first declension (Diminutive of: fax)

1. small torch

First declension.

• Vulgar Latin: *facla
  • Old Occitan:
    • Catalan: falla
  • Romanian: fachie
  • Romansch: facla
  • → Old High German: faccala, vackel
    • Alemannic German: Fachele
    • German: Fackel
      • → Danish: fakkel
      • → Macedonian: факел (fakel)
      • → Norwegian: fakkel
      • → Russian: факел (fakel)
    • Luxembourgish: Fakel
    • Rhine Franconian:

      Pennsylvania German: Fackel

    • → Serbo-Croatian:

      Cyrillic: бакља

      Latin: baklja

    • → Slovak: fakľa
    • → Slovene: bakla
• Vulgar Latin: *facucla
  • Old Portuguese:
    • Portuguese: fagulha, faúlha
• Vulgar Latin: *fascla (crossed with fascis (“bundle”))
  • Old Portuguese: facha
    • Galician: facha, facho
    • Portuguese: facha, facho
  • Old Spanish: facha
    • Spanish: hacha
• Vulgar Latin: *flacula
  • Italian: fiaccola
    • → Maltese: fjakkla
  • Romanian: flacără
• → Albanian: flakë (possibly)
• → Bulgarian: факла (fakla)
  • → Romanian: faclă (or from Greek)
• → Bulgarian: факлия (faklija)
  • → Romanian: făclie (or a diminutive of faclă, or from Serbo-Croatian)
• → Catalan: fàcula
• → Dutch: fakkel
• → English: facula
• → Greek: φάϰλα (fáϰla)
  • → Romanian: faclă (or from Bulgarian)
• → Hungarian: fáklya
• → Italian: facola
• → Low German: Fachel
• → Old English: fæcele
• → Portuguese: fácula
• → Serbo-Croatian: faklja
  • → Romanian: faclă (or a diminutive of faclă, or from Bulgarian)
• → Spanish: fácula
• → Swedish: fackla

• facula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• facula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• facula in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• facula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• facula in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700‎, pre-publication website, 2005-2016