betulla
Italian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Latin betulla, diminutive of Gaulish *betua, from Proto-Celtic *betwiyos, *betuyā (“birch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet-.
Compare Portuguese bétula, Spanish abedul, Catalan bedoll, French bouleau.
Noun
editbetulla f (plural betulle)
Further reading
edit- betulla in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
editAlternative forms
edit- betūla? (Medieval Latin)
- betula (medieval?, early New Latin)
Etymology
editFrom Gaulish *bitu, from Proto-Celtic *betwiyos, *betuyā, *betu, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷetu-yo-s, *gʷetw-iyo-s, from *gʷet-.[1][2]
Compare Welsh bedwen. See also Latin bitūmen (“tar”), which was instead borrowed through another Italic language.
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /beˈtul.la/, [bɛˈt̪ʊlːʲä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /beˈtul.la/, [beˈt̪ulːä]
Noun
editbetulla f (genitive betullae); first declension
- birch tree
Notes
edit- The form betula as meaning "birch tree" appears to have been discarded from antique lexicography altogether since the 20th century, as it does not appear in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, nor in the Oxford Latin Dictionary. However, betula was common in early New Latin.
Declension
editFirst-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | betulla | betullae |
Genitive | betullae | betullārum |
Dative | betullae | betullīs |
Accusative | betullam | betullās |
Ablative | betullā | betullīs |
Vocative | betulla | betullae |
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Balkan Romance:
- Romanian: betulă
- Italo-Romance:
- Italian: betulla
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *betullus
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *betūlus
- Borrowings:
References
edit- “betulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 64
- ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1995) Studies in British Celtic historical phonology (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 5), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 326
Categories:
- Italian terms borrowed from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Latin
- Italian terms derived from Gaulish
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Italian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Italian lemmas
- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- it:Birch family plants
- it:Trees
- Latin terms borrowed from Gaulish
- Latin terms derived from Gaulish
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Celtic
- Latin terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latin 3-syllable words
- Latin terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latin lemmas
- Latin nouns
- Latin first declension nouns
- Latin feminine nouns in the first declension
- Latin feminine nouns
- la:Fagales order plants