alauda
See also: Alauda
Italian
editEtymology
editLearned borrowing from Latin alauda, borrowed from Gaulish *alawda (“skylark”, literally “tuft”). Synonym and doublet of allodola.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editalauda f (plural alaude)
- (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
editFurther reading
edit- alauda in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Gaulish *alawda (“skylark”), literally "tuft." Compare Proto-Germanic *laiwarikǭ (“lark”), which could share a Celto-Germanic substratum.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /aˈlau̯.da/, [äˈɫ̪äu̯d̪ä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈlau̯.da/, [äˈläːu̯d̪ä]
Noun
editalauda f (genitive alaudae); first declension
- A lark; the crested lark, the skylark.
Declension
editFirst-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | alauda | alaudae |
Genitive | alaudae | alaudārum |
Dative | alaudae | alaudīs |
Accusative | alaudam | alaudās |
Ablative | alaudā | alaudīs |
Vocative | alauda | alaudae |
Descendants
edit- Gallo-Romance:
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *alaudula
- Borrowings:
References
edit- “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
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