rosignol

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Occitan rossinhol.

Noun

rosignol oblique singular, m (oblique plural rosignous or rosignox or rosignols, nominative singular rosignous or rosignox or rosignols, nominative plural rosignol)

1. nightingale

Descendants

• French: rossignol

Venetan

Alternative forms

• rosignòl, rosignól, rossignòl — alternative spellings
• rusignol — Lagunar, Northern
  • rusignòl, russignòl — alternative spellings
• rosignoło — Central, Eastern
  • rosignòło — alternative spelling
• luxignol — Colonial

Etymology

Ultimately from Latin lusciniola (“nightingale”) influenced by russus (“red”), compare Italian rosignolo, Neapolitan russignuolo, riscignuolo, Sicilian rusignolu and Old Occitan rossinhol. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /rosiˈɲɔl/, (Western) /rosiˈɲol/

Noun

rosignol m (plural rosignoi) (Lagunar, Eastern, Western)

1. nightingale (Luscinia megarhynchos)

Derived terms

• rosignołeto

References

• “rosignòl”, in el Galepin – www.elgalepin.com
• Boerio, Giuseppe (1867) “rossignol”, in Dizionario del dialetto veneziano, 3rd edition, Venice: G. Cecchini, page 584c
• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 492: “l'usignolo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it