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. Compare Sicilian auceḍḍu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /awˈd͡ʒɛl.lo/
• Rhymes: -ɛllo
• Hyphenation: au‧gèl‧lo

Noun

augello m (plural augelli) (archaic, poetic)

1. bird

   Synonym: uccello

   • 1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXIII”, in Paradiso [Heaven]‎^[1], lines 1–3; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate]‎^[2], 2^nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:

     Come l’augello, intra l’amate fronde,
     posato al nido de’ suoi dolci nati
     la notte che le cose ci nasconde […]

     Like the bird, among the beloved branches, sitting in the nest of its dear brood, [in] the night which hides things from us […]

   • 1475, Angelo Poliziano, Stanze de messer Angelo Politiano cominciate per la giostra del magnifico Giuliano di Pietro de Medici‎^[3], 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]‎^[4], 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