Noun: spatula
| Singular | spatula |
| Plural | spatulas; spatulae; spatulæ |
Sample Sentences
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The croupier delicately faced her other two cards with the tip of his spatula. A four! She had lost! [1963, Ian Fleming, On Her Majesty's Secret Service:]
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The third instars are similar to other members of the genus except for a three-pronged spatula (typically two-pronged) and five lateral papillae (typically four) and with a nonbristled first instar. [2015 November 2, Donald B. Thomas, John A. Goolsby, “Morphology of the Preimaginal Stages of Lasioptera donacis Coutin (Diptera: Cecidomyiidae), a Candidate Biocontrol Agent for Giant Arundo Cane”, in Psyche, →DOI:]
Nouns inflected like spatula
saliva,
sclera,
subpoena,
persona,
panacea,
amoebula,
cannula,
corolla,
hydrotheca,
scrofula,
fovea,
flora,
hydra,
testa,
vulva,
amebula,
ballista,
hyperbola,
infant formula,
endotesta, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin spatula (“a flat piece”), the diminutive form of spatha (“broad or flat tool”), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “a broad wood or metal blade”). Doublet of spauld; compare spatha and spathe. See: Latin Nouns '
spatula', Ancient Greek Nouns '
σπάθη'.