labina

Latin

Etymology

From the root of lābor +‎ -īna. Compare Latin lābēs.

Noun

lābīna f (genitive lābīnae); first declension

1. a slippery place
2. a landslide

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	lābīna	lābīnae
genitive	lābīnae	lābīnārum
dative	lābīnae	lābīnīs
accusative	lābīnam	lābīnās
ablative	lābīnā	lābīnīs
vocative	lābīna	lābīnae

Derived terms

• (Vulgar Latin) labanca

Descendants

• Franco-Provençal: lavino
• Italian: slavina
• → Old High German: lowin, lewina
  • Middle High German: lowin, *lawene
    • Alemannic German: Lauwin, Laui
      • → German: Lawine (see there for further descendants)
    • Bavarian: Laun, Lan
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *labanca
  • Franco-Provençal: lavençhe
    • ⇒ Franco-Provençal: avalençhe (blended with aval (“downhill”))
      • → French: avalanche
        • → English: avalanche
        • → Galician: avalancha
        • → Portuguese: avalanche, avalancha
        • → Romanian: avalanșă
        • → Spanish: avalancha
      • → Occitan: avalanca
  • Italian: valanga
  • Old Occitan:
    • Occitan: lavanca
  • Sicilian: lavanca, valanca

References

• “labina”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "labina", 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)