mergulus
Ubi idem et maximus et honestissimus amor est, aliquando praestat morte jungi, quam vita distrahi → Where indeed the greatest and most honourable love exists, it is much better to be joined by death, than separated by life.
Latin > English
mergulus merguli N M :: diver, kind of sea bird; (small gull); wick of a lamp
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
mergŭlus: i, m. mergo,
I the wick of a lamp: mergulus, ἐλλύχνιον, Gloss. Gr. and Lat.
mergŭlus: i, m.
dim. mergus,
I a diver, a kind of bird, Vulg. Lev. 11, 17; id. Deut. 14, 17.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
(1) mergŭlus, ī, m., dim. de mergus, plongeon : Vulg. Deut. 14, 17.
(2) mergŭlus, ī, m. (mergo), mèche de lampe : Gloss. Labb.
Latin > German (Georges)
mergulus, ī, m. (Demin. v. mergus), der Taucher, Vulg. Levit. 11, 17; deut. 14, 17; vgl. Gloss. III, 17, 58 ›mergulus, αἴθυια‹.
Latin > Chinese
*mergulus, i. m. :: 燈燃子
Translations
wick
Arabic: فَتِيل, فَتِيلَة; Aramaic Jewish: פְּתִילָא, פְּתִילֽתָּא, בֹּוצִנָא; Syriac: ܦܬܺܝܠܳܐ, ܦܬܺܝܠܬܳܐ, ܒܽܘܨܝܺܢܳܐ; Armenian: պատրույգ; Old Armenian: պատրոյգ, բուծին; Azerbaijani: fitil, piltə; Bashkir: филтә; Belarusian: кнот; Bulgarian: фитил; Catalan: ble, metxa; Chinese Mandarin: 燈心／灯心, 燭心／烛心, 炷; Crimean Tatar: melte; Czech: knot; Danish: væge; Dutch: lont; Esperanto: meĉo; Estonian: taht; Faroese: veikur, rak; Finnish: sydän, sydänlanka; French: mèche, mèche de bougie; Galician: pabío; Ge'ez: ፍትል, ፈትል ሡዕ; Georgian: ფითილი; German: Docht, Dacht, Kerzendocht; Greek: φιτίλι; Ancient Greek: θρυαλλίς, ἐλλύχνιον, ἅπτρα; Hungarian: kanóc; Icelandic: kveikur; Irish: buaiceas; Italian: stoppino, lucignolo; Japanese: 芯, 灯心, ろうそくの芯; Kazakh: білте, пілте; Korean: 심지, 등심; Kumyk: мелте; Kyrgyz: билик; Latin: filum, mergulus, ellychnium; Latvian: dakts; Lithuanian: dagtis; Luhya: olutambi; Macedonian: фитил; Malayalam: തിരി; Middle English: weke, mecche; Nepali: मैनधागो; Norwegian Bokmål: veke; Oromo: fo'aa; Ottoman Turkish: فتیل; Persian: فتیله, پلیته; Plautdietsch: Dacht; Polish: knot, świecidło; Portuguese: pavio, mecha; Romanian: fitil, muc; Russian: фитиль; Serbo-Croatian Cyrillic: фѝтӣљ; Roman: fìtīlj; Slovak: knôt; Slovene: stenj; Somali: dubaalad; Spanish: mecha, pabilo, pábilo; Swahili: utambi, ukope; Swedish: veke; Tagalog: mitsa; Tajik: пилта; Tatar: филтә; Tausug: sumbuhan; Turkish: fitil; Ukrainian: ґніт; Uyghur: پىلىك; Uzbek: pilik; Vietnamese: bấc, bấc đèn; Vilamovian: töcht, tȫht; Welsh: pabwyr; Yiddish: קנויט
