specula

• Rhymes: -ɛkjʊlə

specula

1. plural of speculum

• capsule, laces up, scale up, scaleup, upscale

specula

1. inflection of speculare:
   1. third-person singular present indicative
   2. second-person singular imperative

• capsule, lupesca, scapule

From speciō. Cf. scopulus, through Ancient Greek, from the same root.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈspe.ku.la/, [ˈs̠pɛkʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈspe.ku.la/, [ˈspɛːkulä]

specula f (genitive speculae); first declension

1. watchtower, lookout

First-declension noun.

• speculor

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈspe.ku.la/, [ˈs̠pɛkʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈspe.ku.la/, [ˈspɛːkulä]

specula

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of speculum

Diminutive form of spēs: spēs +‎ -culus.

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈspeː.ku.la/, [ˈs̠peːkʊɫ̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈspe.ku.la/, [ˈspɛːkulä]

spēcula f (genitive spēculae); first declension

1. slight hope

First-declension noun.

• “specula”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “specula”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• specula 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)
• specula in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
• “specula”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

Borrowed from French spéculer, Latin speculari.

a specula (third-person singular present speculează, past participle speculat) 1st conj.

1. to speculate

• speculare

• speculație