augello
See also: Augello
Italian
Etymology
From Old Occitan auzel, from Late Latin aucellus m (“little bird”), a diminutive ultimately based on Latin avis f (“bird”). Doublet of uccello, the native counterpart.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /awˈd͡ʒɛl.lo/
- Rhymes: -ɛllo
- Hyphenation: au‧gèl‧lo
Noun
augello m (plural augelli) (archaic, poetic)
- bird
- Synonym: uccello
- 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso [The Divine Comedy: Paradise] (paperback), Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XXIII, lines 1–3, page 413:
- Come l'augello, intra l'amate fronde, ¶ posato al nido de' suoi dolci nati ¶ la notte che le cose ci nasconde
- Even as a bird, 'mid the beloved leaves, ¶ quiet upon the nest of her sweet brood ¶ throughout the night, that hideth all things from us
- 1475, Angelo Poliziano, Stanze de messer Angelo Politiano cominciate per la giostra del magnifico Giuliano di Pietro de Medici, collected in Poesie Italiane by Saverio Orlando, Bologna: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, published 1988, Book I:
- ove in su’ rami fra novelle fronde ¶ cantano i loro amor soavi augelli
- in whose branches gentle birds sing of their loves among fresh leaves
- 1850, Giosuè Carducci, Odi Barbare [Barbarian Odes], collected in Poesie, Nicola Zanichelli, published 1906, page 854:
- fósche con volo di sinistri augelli ¶ vengon le nubi
- dark, with the flight of sinister birds, the clouds come
Further reading
- augello in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana