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.^[1] The form in question is first documented in the late thirteenth century, as are both of the more indigenous-looking variants above.^[2]

further comments

As ⟨VgiV⟩ has since the late thirteenth century in Tuscany denoted [ʒ] (later 'corrected' to [d͡ʒ] in Standard Italian),^[3] ⟨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.^[4]

Pronunciation

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

Noun

rugiada f (plural rugiade)

dew

References

^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “rōs”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 10: R, page 476
^ “rugiada”, in TLIO – Tesoro della lingua italiana delle origini
^ Canalis, Stefano. 2017. "The voiced and voiceless outcomes of intervocalic -sj- in Old Tuscan". Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali 3. 157–182.
^ See AIS maps 64, 69, and 1076.

Anagrams

graduai, guardai, guardia, guardia-

[1] Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “rōs”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 10: R, page 476

[2] “rugiada”, in TLIO – Tesoro della lingua italiana delle origini

[3] Canalis, Stefano. 2017. "The voiced and voiceless outcomes of intervocalic -sj- in Old Tuscan". Quaderni di Linguistica e Studi Orientali 3. 157–182.

[4] See AIS maps 64, 69, and 1076.

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