diurnata

Latin

Etymology

From diurnus (“daily; a day”) + -āta, feminine of -ātus, or a reborrowing from Romance from *diurnāta.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

diurnāta f (genitive diurnātae); first declension

1.  (Medieval Latin) 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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Usage notes

This word clearly existed in Proto-Romance times. However, the only available attestation is in a 12th-century Belgian charter (see quotation above), which may have been developed from Old French jornee without awareness of the Proto-Romance form.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	diurnāta	diurnātae
Genitive	diurnātae	diurnātārum
Dative	diurnātae	diurnātīs
Accusative	diurnātam	diurnātās
Ablative	diurnātā	diurnātīs
Vocative	diurnāta	diurnātae

Descendants

• Asturian: xornada
• Friulian: zornade
• Istriot: zurnada
• Italian: giornata
• Neapolitan: jurnata
• Franco-Provençal: jorná
• Old French: jornee
  • French: journée
  • → English: journey
• Portuguese: jornada
• Sicilian: jurnata
• Spanish: jornada
• Venetian: zornada, xornada
• → Welsh: diwrnod

References

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