rugiada

Italian

Alternative forms

• rosada, rosata (archaic)

Etymology

Ultimately from Vulgar Latin *rōsāta but borrowed, at least in the form rugiada, from some Gallo-Italic language. The form in question is first documented in the late thirteenth century, as are both of the more indigenous-looking variants above.

further comments

As ⟨VgiV⟩ has since the late thirteenth century in Tuscany denoted [ʒ] (later 'corrected' to [d͡ʒ] in Standard Italian), ⟨rugiada⟩ would be the expected spelling for a pronunciation like [ruˈʒaːda]. As it happens, [ʒ] is a common intervocalic outcome of Latin [s] in Gallo-Italic, for instance in the modern dialects bordering northeastern Tuscany.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ruˈd͡ʒa.da/
• Rhymes: -ada
• Hyphenation: ru‧già‧da

Noun

rugiada f (plural rugiade)

1. dew

Anagrams

• graduai, guardai, guardia, guardia-