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laubia
Latin
Alternative forms
- lōbia, lōbium, laupia, lōvia, lōgia
Etymology
Borrowed from Frankish *laubijā (“shelter, arbour”). First attested from a document in Milan dated 865.
Pronunciation
- (Proto-Gallo-Romance) IPA(key): /ˈlau̯βd͡ʒa/
Noun
laubia f (genitive laubiae); first declension[1][2] (Medieval Latin)
- (architecture) penthouse, gallery, arcade, portico, lodge
Declension
First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | laubia | laubiae |
Genitive | laubiae | laubiārum |
Dative | laubiae | laubiīs |
Accusative | laubiam | laubiās |
Ablative | laubiā | laubiīs |
Vocative | laubia | laubiae |
Descendants
- Padanian:
- Lombard: lòbia, lobja
- Piedmontese: lòbia
- → Franco-Provençal: lòbia (Valdôtain)
- Romansch: lautga, loptga, lobgia
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: louye
- Old French: loege, logge, loge (see there for further descendants)
- →? Old French: *lobie
- → Middle English:
- English: lobby (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: lobby
- → Middle English:
References
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “laubia”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 584
- laubia 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)