diurnalis

Latin

Etymology

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

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

Adjective

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

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

Declension

Third-declension two-termination adjective.

Number	Singular			Plural
Case / Gender	Masc./Fem.	Neuter		Masc./Fem.	Neuter
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

• 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

• “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.