Lousonna

Italian

Proper noun

Lousonna ?

1. Alternative form of Losanna

Latin

Alternative forms

• Lausanna
• Lausōnium

Etymology

Connected to *lausa (“slab”), named after a cult stone that could be seen near Lausanne until the 19^th century.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /luːˈson.na/, [ɫ̪uːˈs̠ɔnːä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /luˈson.na/, [luˈs̬ɔnːä]

Proper noun

Lousonna f sg (genitive Lousonnae); first declension

1. Lausanne

Declension

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

	singular
nominative	Lousonna
genitive	Lousonnae
dative	Lousonnae
accusative	Lousonnam
ablative	Lousonnā
vocative	Lousonna
locative	Lousonnae

References

• "LOUSONNA" by V. Von Gonzenbach in Richard Stillwell, William L[loyd] MacDonald, Marian Holland McAllister, editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976.
• Hubschmied, Johann Ulrich (1938) “Sprachliche Zeugen für das späte Aussterben des Gallischen”, in Vox Romanica‎^[1] (in German), volume 3, →DOI, page 102 of 48–155
• Schuchardt, Hugo (1882) “V. Etymologisches. 1. Spanisch-portugiesische Etymologien”, in Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie (in German), volume 6, page 424