diurnalis

Latin edit

Etymology edit

Coined as a translation for the Ancient Greek ἡμερούσιος (hēmeroúsios, “daily”) from the roots diurnus (“of or belonging to the day”) +‎ -ālis (suffix forming adjectives of relationship).

Pronunciation edit

(Classical) IPA^(key): /di.urˈnaː.lis/, [d̪iʊrˈnäːlʲɪs̠]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di.urˈna.lis/, [d̪iurˈnäːlis]

Adjective edit

diurnālis (neuter diurnāle); third-declension two-termination adjective

diurnal (of the day; that takes place during the day)

Declension edit

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter	Masc./Fem.	Neuter
Number	Singular		Plural
Nominative	diurnālis	diurnāle	diurnālēs	diurnālia
Genitive	diurnālis		diurnālium
Dative	diurnālī		diurnālibus
Accusative	diurnālem	diurnāle	diurnālēs diurnālīs	diurnālia
Ablative	diurnālī		diurnālibus
Vocative	diurnālis	diurnāle	diurnālēs	diurnālia

Descendants edit

Italian: giornale
Old French: journal, jornal, jornel, journel, jurnel
- French: journal (see there for further descendants)
- Anglo-Norman: jurnal
  - → Middle English: journal
    - English: journal
    - Scots: jurnal
Venetian: xornàl
- → Cimbrian: jornaal
West Iberian
- Asturian: xornal
- Old Galician-Portuguese: jornal
  - Galician: xornal
  - Portuguese: jornal
- Spanish: jornal

Borrowings

→ English: diurnal
→ French: diurnal

References edit

“dĭurnālis”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
diurnalis 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)
dĭurnālis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette, page 547/2.