alauda

See also: Alauda

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin alauda, borrowed from Gaulish *alauda (“skylark”, literally “tuft”). Synonym and doublet of allodola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈlaw.da/
• Rhymes: -awda
• Hyphenation: a‧làu‧da

Noun

alauda f (plural alaude)

1. (poetic) skylark
   • 1877, Giosuè Carducci, Odi barbare [Barbarian Odes]‎^[1], collected in Poesie, Nicola Zanichelli, published 1906, page 862:

     spicca l’alauda il volo trillando l’aerea canzone

     The skylark takes flight, warbling the aerial song

Related terms

• alaudide

 

Further reading

• alauda in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Alauda (a skylark)

Etymology

Borrowed from Gaulish *alauda (“skylark”), literally "tuft." Compare Proto-Germanic *laiwarikǭ (“lark”), which could share a Celto-Germanic substratum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈlau̯.da/, [äˈɫ̪äu̯d̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈlau̯.da/, [äˈläːu̯d̪ä]

Noun

alauda f (genitive alaudae); first declension

1. A lark; the crested lark, the skylark.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	alauda	alaudae
Genitive	alaudae	alaudārum
Dative	alaudae	alaudīs
Accusative	alaudam	alaudās
Ablative	alaudā	alaudīs
Vocative	alauda	alaudae

Descendants

• Catalan: alosa, alova
• Old French: aloe, aloel, aloëte
  • French: alouette, aloyau
• Occitan: alauza, alauseta
• Walloon: ålouwete, alôye
• Vulgar Latin: *alaudula
  • Friulian: lodule, odule
  • Italian: allodola, lodola
  • Ladino: lodola
  • Romansch: lodola
  • Sardinian: allòdola
  • Spanish: alondra
• Translingual: Alauda

References

• “alauda”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• alauda 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)
• alauda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “alauda”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “alauda”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Fryske Academy (1998): Lezingen fan it fjirtjinde Frysk Filologekongres: 23, 24 en 25 oktober 1996
• Reichart, L. (2000): Kratylos, Volume 45