noctule

English

Etymology

Borrowed 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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈnɒktjuːl/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈnɑkt͡ʃul/

Noun

noctule (plural noctules)

1. A bat, of the genus Nyctalus, that lives in tree hollows.

Derived terms

• Azores noctule
• birdlike noctule
• Chinese noctule
• common noctule
• greater noctule bat
• Japanese noctule
• lesser noctule
• mountain noctule

Descendants

• →? Catalan: nòctul
• → Spanish: nóctulo

Translations

bat of the genus Nyctalus

• Albanian: noktulë f
• Armenian: իրիկնաչղջիկ (iriknačʻġǰik)
• Azerbaijani: axşam yarasası
• Basque: gau-saguzar
• Belarusian: вячэ́рніца f (vjačérnica)
• Breton: nozigell f
• Bulgarian: вечерник m (večernik)
• Catalan: nòctul m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 山蝠 (saan¹ fuk¹), 夜蝠 (je⁶ fuk¹)

  Mandarin: 山蝠 (zh) (shānfú), 夜蝠 (yèfú)

• Dutch: vroegvlieger m
• Estonian: videvlane
• Finnish: isolepakko
• French: noctule (fr) f
• Georgian: მეღამურა (meɣamura)
• German: Abendsegler (de) m
• Hungarian: koraidenevér
• Italian: nottola f
• Japanese: 山蝙蝠 (やまこうもり, yamakōmori), ヤマコウモリ (yamakōmori)
• Korean: 멧박쥐 (metbakjwi)
• Lithuanian: nakviša f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: storflaggermus m or f

  Nynorsk: storflaggermus f

• Persian: خفاش جنگلی (xoffâš jangali)
• Polish: borowiec (pl) m
• Portuguese: morcego-arborícola m, morcego arborícola m
• Russian: вече́рница (ru) f (večérnica)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: но̏ћнӣк m

  Roman: nȍćnīk m

• Slovak: raniak m
• Slovene: mračnik m
• Spanish: nóctulo m
• Swedish: brunfladdermus c
• Thai: ค้างคาวกินแมลง (káang-kaao gin má-lɛɛng)
• Ukrainian: вечі́рниця f (večírnycja)
• Venetian: nòtoła f
• Western Panjabi: نائکٹالس m (nāykṭālas)

Anagrams

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French

Etymology

Coined in 1760 by Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton (quoted below) as a latinised borrowing of the Italian nottola (name for various bats and birds).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɔk.tyl/

• Audio:

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Noun

noctule f (plural noctules)

1. 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

• → English: noctule
  • →? Catalan: nòctul
  • → Spanish: nóctulo
• → New Latin: noctula

Further reading

• “noctule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.