alauda

See also: Alauda

Italian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

Related terms

• alaudide

 

Further reading

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

Latin

Alauda (a skylark)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /aˈlau̯.da/, [äˈɫ̪äu̯d̪ä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈlau̯.da/, [äˈläːu̯d̪ä]

Noun

alauda f (genitive alaudae); first declension

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	alauda	alaudae
genitive	alaudae	alaudārum
dative	alaudae	alaudīs
accusative	alaudam	alaudās
ablative	alaudā	alaudīs
vocative	alauda	alaudae

Descendants

• Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: aloda
  • Catalan: alosa, alova
  • Old French: aloe, aloel, aloëte ⇒ aloel, aloëte
    • French: alouette, aloyau
  • Gascon: alauda, alausa ⇒ alaudeta, laudeta, alauseta, lauseta
  • Old Occitan: alauza
    • Auvergnat: alausa
    • ⇒ Languedocien: alauseta, lauseta
    • Limousin: lauva ⇒ alauveta, lauveta
    • ⇒ Limousin: alauseta, alauveta
  • ⇒ Walloon: ålouwete, alôye
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *alaudula
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: allodola, lodola
  • North-Italian:
    • Friulian: lodule, odule
    • Ladino: lodola
    • Ligurian: lödoa
    • Lombard: lodra, lodla, lodna, loldra, lolda, loda
    • Piedmontese: lodna, lodra
    • Romansch: lodola
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Spanish: alondra
  • Sardinian: allòdola
• Borrowings:
  • → Translingual: Alauda, genus

References

• “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