laubia

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)

1. (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

References

1. Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “laubia”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 584
2. 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)