noctule
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French noctule, a latinised scientific borrowing of the Italian nottola (refers to various birds or bats), inherited from Late Latin noctula, diminutive of Classical Latin noctua (“night-owl”), ultimately from Latin nox (“night”), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. Per the OED, first attested in English in 1771.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editnoctule (plural noctules)
Derived terms
edit- Azores noctule
- birdlike noctule
- Chinese noctule
- common noctule
- greater noctule bat
- Japanese noctule
- lesser noctule
- mountain noctule
Descendants
editTranslations
editbat of the genus Nyctalus
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editFrench
editEtymology
editCoined in 1760 by Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton (quoted below) as a latinised borrowing of the Italian nottola (name for various bats and birds).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editnoctule f (plural noctules)
- noctule
- 1760, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton, Histoire Naturelle, volume VIII:
- La troisième espèce, que nous appellerons la noctule, du mot italien nottola...
- The third species, which we shall call the noctule, from the Italian word nottola...
Descendants
editFurther reading
edit- “noctule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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