alauda

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Italian

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Etymology

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Learned borrowing from Latin alauda, borrowed from Gaulish *alawda (skylark, literally tuft). Synonym and doublet of allodola.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /aˈlaw.da/
  • Rhymes: -awda
  • Hyphenation: a‧làu‧da

Noun

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alauda f (plural alaude)

  1. (poetic) skylark
    • 1877, Giosuè Carducci, Odi barbare [Barbarian Odes]‎[1], 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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Further reading

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  • alauda in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

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Alauda (a skylark)

Etymology

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Borrowed from Gaulish *alawda (skylark), literally "tuft." Compare Proto-Germanic *laiwarikǭ (lark), which could share a Celto-Germanic substratum.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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alauda f (genitive alaudae); first declension

  1. A lark; the crested lark, the skylark.

Declension

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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

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References

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  • 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