diurnata

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from the Romance descendants of Vulgar Latin *diurnāta (in particular Old French jornee).

Pronunciation

• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /di.urˈna.ta/, [d̪iurˈnäːt̪ä]

Noun

diurnāta f (genitive diurnātae); first declension (Medieval Latin)

1.  a day's work, a day's journey; a day
   • 1144-1167, “LXXXIX. L'abbé Jean 1^er de Waha atteste diverses donations faites au prieuré de Saint-Thibaut à Château-Porcien”, in Godefroid Kurth, editor, Chartes de l'Abbaye de Saint-Hubert en Ardenne, published 1903:

     Postea ipsius prefati [G]erardi filius eodem nomine vocatus dedit Sancto Teobaldo quatuordecim denarios census et sex diurnatas terrae et foragia[que] tenebat in prefato castro.

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Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	diurnāta	diurnātae
genitive	diurnātae	diurnātārum
dative	diurnātae	diurnātīs
accusative	diurnātam	diurnātās
ablative	diurnātā	diurnātīs
vocative	diurnāta	diurnātae

References

• “journey”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.