battualia

Latin

Alternative forms

• battālia (Late Latin)

Etymology

From battuō.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /bat.tuˈaː.li.a/, [bät̪ːuˈäːlʲiä]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /bat.tuˈa.li.a/, [bät̪ːuˈäːliä]

Noun

battuālia f (genitive battuāliae); first declension or battuālia n pl (genitive battuālium); third declension

1. military exercises (originally for gladiators)

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	battuālia	battuāliae
Genitive	battuāliae	battuāliārum
Dative	battuāliae	battuāliīs
Accusative	battuāliam	battuāliās
Ablative	battuāliā	battuāliīs
Vocative	battuālia	battuāliae

Sometimes this word is treated as a neuter plurale tantum: Third-declension noun (neuter, “pure” i-stem), plural only.

Case	Plural
Nominative	battuālia
Genitive	battuālium
Dative	battuālibus
Accusative	battuālia
Ablative	battuālibus
Vocative	battuālia

Descendants

• Eastern Romance:
  • Aromanian: bãtalji, bãtalje
  • Romanian: bătaie
• Padanian:
  • Friulian: batae
  • Piedmontese: bataja
  • Romansch: battaglia, bataglia
  • Romagnol: batàgia, batàja
  • Venetian: batalgia, batalja
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: battaglia
    • → Istriot: batalgia
    • → Maltese: battalja
    • → Polish: batalia
    • → Romanian: bătălie (via some Slavic source)
    • → Russian: баталия (batalija) (or from French)
  • Sardinian: batadha, batalla, batàglia, bataza
  • Sicilian: battagghia
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: bataille
    • Middle French: bataille
      • French: bataille
    • Norman: bataille, batâle
    • Walloon: batreye
    • → Asturian: batalla
    • → Middle English: batayle, batel, bataylle, bataille, bataile, bataill, batail, batell, batayll, bateil, baitale
      • English: battle
      • Scots: battle
    • → Old Spanish: batalla (or from Old Occitan)
      • Ladino: batalya
      • Spanish: batalla
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Old Occitan: batalha
    • Occitan: batalha
    • → Old Spanish: batalla (or from Old French)
      • Ladino: batalya
      • Spanish: batalla
• West Iberian:
  • Navarro-Aragonese: batalla, bataylla (also hyper-Castilian bataja)
    • Aragonese: batalla
  • Old Portuguese: batalla
    • Galician: batalla
    • Portuguese: batalha
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: betejë
  • → Basque: bataila
  • → English: battalia
  • → Old Danish: batalje
  • → Polish: batalia

References

• “battualia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• battualia 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)
• battualia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette