alauda
See also: Alauda
Italian
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin alauda, borrowed from Gaulish *alauda (“skylark”, literally “tuft”). Synonym and doublet of allodola.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈlaw.da/
- Rhymes: -awda
- Hyphenation: a‧làu‧da
Noun
alauda f (plural alaude)
- (poetic) skylark
- 1877, Giosuè Carducci, Odi barbare [Barbarian Odes], collected in Poesie, Nicola Zanichelli, published 1906, page 862:
- spicca l’alauda il volo trillando l’aerea canzone
- The skylark takes flight, warbling the aerial song
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Related terms
- alaudide
Further reading
- alauda in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
Latin
Alauda (a skylark)
Etymology
Borrowed from Gaulish *alauda (“skylark”), literally "tuft." Compare Proto-Germanic *laiwarikǭ (“lark”), which could share a Celto-Germanic substratum.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /aˈlau̯.da/, [äˈɫ̪äu̯d̪ä]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /aˈlau̯.da/, [äˈläːu̯d̪ä]
Noun
alauda f (genitive alaudae); first declension
- A lark; the crested lark, the skylark.
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | alauda | alaudae |
| Genitive | alaudae | alaudārum |
| Dative | alaudae | alaudīs |
| Accusative | alaudam | alaudās |
| Ablative | alaudā | alaudīs |
| Vocative | alauda | alaudae |
Descendants
- Catalan: alosa, alova
- Old French: aloe, aloel, aloëte
- French: alouette, aloyau
- Occitan: alauza, alauseta
- Walloon: alôye
- Vulgar Latin: *alaudula
- Friulian: lodule, odule
- Italian: allodola, lodola
- Ladino: lodola
- Romansch: lodola
- Sardinian: allòdola
- Spanish: alondra
- Translingual: Alauda
References
- “alauda”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- alauda 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)
- alauda in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “alauda”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “alauda”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
- Fryske Academy (1998): Lezingen fan it fjirtjinde Frysk Filologekongres: 23, 24 en 25 oktober 1996
- Reichart, L. (2000): Kratylos, Volume 45