asciola

asciola

Latin

Etymology

From ascia (“axe”) +‎ -ola (diminutive ending). Attested in Isidore's Etymologiae.[1]

Pronunciation

• (Proto-Western Romance) IPA^(key): /asˈt͡sɔla/

Noun

asciola f (genitive asciolae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) adze (cutting tool)

Descendants

• Gallo-Italic:
  • Piedmontese: assul
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Franco-Provençal: essoula
  • Old Bourguignon: assoule
  • Old Franc-Comtois: essole
• Occitano-Romance:
  • Catalan: aixola
  • Occitan: aissòla
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: ixuela, xuela, axuela, axuelo, xuelo

    Ribagorçan: ixuela, eixola, eixol, aixuela

  • Old Portuguese: [Term?]
    • Galician: aixola, aixó, aixoa, anxola
    • Portuguese: enxó
  • Old Spanish: açuela
    • Spanish: azuela
  • → Basque: aizkora

References

• Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1984), “azuela”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 438
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “asciŏla”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 424

1. Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “asciola”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 63