diurnata

Latin

Etymology

From diurnus (“daily; a day”) + -āta, feminine of -ātus.

Pronunciation

(Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di.urˈna.ta/, [d̪iurˈnäːt̪ä]

Noun

diurnāta f (genitive diurnātae); first declension

(Medieval Latin) a day's work, a day's journey; a day
- 1144-1167, “LXXXIX. L'abbé Jean 1^er 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 quote)

Usage notes

This word clearly existed in Proto-Romance times. However, the only available attestation is in a 12th-century Belgian charter (see quotation above), which may have been developed from Old French jornee without awareness of the Proto-Romance form.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	diurnāta	diurnātae
Genitive	diurnātae	diurnātārum
Dative	diurnātae	diurnātīs
Accusative	diurnātam	diurnātās
Ablative	diurnātā	diurnātīs
Vocative	diurnāta	diurnātae

Descendants

Asturian: xornada
Friulian: zornade
Istriot: zurnada
Italian: giornata
Neapolitan: jurnata
Franco-Provençal: jorná
Old French: jornee
- French: journée
- → English: journey
Sicilian: jurnata
Spanish: jornada
Venetian: zornada, xornada
→ Welsh: diwrnod

References

“journey”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.