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Ancilla Definition

ancilla

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English

Etymology

From Latin ancilla (“maid, slave-girl”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ancilla (plural ancillae)

  1. A maid.
    • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 306:
      ‘And pass me that towel,’ added Ada, but the ancilla was picking up coins she had dropped in her haste [...].
  2. An auxiliary or accessory
    • 2009 January 23, Ryo Okamoto et al., “An Entanglement Filter”[1], Science, volume 323, number 5913, DOI:10.1126/science.1167182: 
      The filter achieves this two-qubit filtering effect by using two ancilla photons as probes that detect whether or not the two input photons are in the desired states.

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Latin

Etymology

Diminutive of ancula (“maid”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ancilla (genitive ancillae); f, first declension

  1. maid, slave-girl
  2. vocative singular of ancilla

ancillā

  1. ablative singular of ancilla

Inflection

Number Singular Plural
nominative ancilla ancillae
genitive ancillae ancillārum
dative ancillae ancillīs
accusative ancillam ancillās
ablative ancillā ancillīs
vocative ancilla ancillae

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