Definitions for ancillas

ancillas an·cil·la

Spelling: [an-sil-uh]
IPA: /ænˈsɪl ə/

Ancillas is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 202 anagrams from letters in ancillas (aacillns).

Definitions for ancillas

noun

  1. an accessory; auxiliary or adjunct.
  2. Archaic. a maidservant.

Origin of ancillas

1870-75; Latin: female slave, maid, probably anc- + -illa diminutive suffix, by reanalysis of ancula maid *anquola, equivalent to an- (see ancile) + *-quola, noun d

Examples for ancillas

I was never unwelcome at their amorous battles, and the voluptuous ancilla was delighted to have me for a witness.

It may be added that S. phegea, and also Naclia ancilla, have been reported as British.

In England, where all agreements are binding, ancilla would have won her case, but at Venice she lost it.

I likewise met in the same place Campioni, the husband of the beautiful ancilla.

Serva means a female slave, with especial reference to her legal condition; ancilla, in ordinary life, as the feminine of servus.

Hic quiescit ancilla Dei, quæ de suis omnibus possidet domum istam, quam amicæ deflent solaciumque requirunt.

Or does he go to hers at her father's, climbing a garden wall every night like Romeo, bribing the porter, or trusting ancilla?

I shall have occasion to speak again of ancilla before her death.

ancilla fainted away, and the count, after refunding the money, challenged me to follow him out and measure swords.

The larger is ancilla pyramidalis, the smaller ancilla mucronata.

Word Value for ancillas
Scrable

9

Words with friends

13

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