Lalage

Translingual

Wikispecies

The pied triller (Lalage nigra)

Etymology

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Proper noun

Lalage f

1. A taxonomic genus within the family Campephagidae – the trillers.

References

• Gill, F. and Wright, M. (2006) Birds of the World: Recommended English Names, Princeton University Press, →ISBN

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English

Alternative forms

• Lallage

Etymology

Ancient Greek λαλαγέω (lalagéō, “to prattle”).

Proper noun

Lalage

1. A female given name from Ancient Greek.
   • 1969, John Fowles, The French Lieutenant's Woman, Penguin 1981, →ISBN, page 359:

     "What's her name?"

     "Lalage." She pronounced it as a dactyl, the g hard. Still she could not raise her eyes. " Mr Rossetti approached me one day in the street. […] He himself proposed the name. He is her godfather." She murmured, "I know it is strange."

Usage notes

• Used in poetry and literature, but rare in the real world.

Anagrams

• alegal, galeal