diurnata
Latin edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from the Romance descendants of Vulgar Latin *diurnāta (in particular Old French jornee).
Pronunciation edit
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /di.urˈna.ta/, [d̪iurˈnäːt̪ä]
Noun edit
diurnāta f (genitive diurnātae); first declension (Medieval Latin)
- a day's work, a day's journey; a day
- 1144-1167, “LXXXIX. L'abbé Jean 1er de Waha atteste diverses donations faites au prieuré de Saint-Thibaut à Château-Porcien”, in Godefroid Kurth, editor, Chartes de l'Abbaye de Saint-Hubert en Ardenne, published 1903:
- Postea ipsius prefati [G]erardi filius eodem nomine vocatus dedit Sancto Teobaldo quatuordecim denarios census et sex diurnatas terrae et foragia[que] tenebat in prefato castro.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension edit
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | diurnāta | diurnātae |
| Genitive | diurnātae | diurnātārum |
| Dative | diurnātae | diurnātīs |
| Accusative | diurnātam | diurnātās |
| Ablative | diurnātā | diurnātīs |
| Vocative | diurnāta | diurnātae |
References edit
- “journey”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
