alauda

See also: Alauda

Italian

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin alauda, borrowed from Gaulish *alauda (“skylark”, literally “tuft”). Synonym and doublet of allodola.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aˈlaw.da/
• Rhymes: -awda
• Hyphenation: a‧làu‧da

Noun

alauda f (plural alaude)

1. (poetic) skylark
   • 1877, Giosuè Carducci, Odi barbare [Barbarian Odes]‎^[1], collected in Poesie, Nicola Zanichelli, published 1906, page 862:

     spicca l’alauda il volo trillando l’aerea canzone

     The skylark takes flight, warbling the aerial song

Related terms

• alaudide

Further reading

• “alauda”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

Latin

Alauda (a skylark)

Etymology

Borrowed from Gaulish *alauda (“skylark”), literally "tuft." Compare Proto-Germanic *laiwazikǭ (“lark”), which could share a Celto-Germanic substratum.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈɫau̯.da]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈlaːu̯.da]

Noun

alauda f (genitive alaudae); first declension

1. a lark; the crested lark, the skylark
   • 77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 11.44:

     praeterea parvae avi quae, ab illo galerita appellata quondam, postea Gallico vocabulo etiam legioni nomen dederat alaudae

     as moroever the small bird which, on account of this peculiarity, was called galerita [hooded], and subsequently called by the Gallic term alauda, a name which he had also given to the legion.

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	alauda	alaudae
genitive	alaudae	alaudārum
dative	alaudae	alaudīs
accusative	alaudam	alaudās
ablative	alaudā	alaudīs
vocative	alauda	alaudae

Descendants

• Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: aloda
  • Catalan: alosa, alova
  • Old French: aloe, aloel, aloëte ⇒ aloel, aloëte
    • French: alouette, aloyau
  • Gascon: alauda, alausa ⇒ alaudeta, laudeta, alauseta, lauseta
  • Old Occitan: alauza
    • Auvergnat: alausa
    • ⇒ Languedocien: alauseta, lauseta
    • Limousin: lauva ⇒ alauveta, lauveta
    • ⇒ Limousin: alauseta, alauveta
  • ⇒ Walloon: ålouwete, alôye
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *alaudula
  • Italo-Romance:
    • Italian: allodola, lodola
  • North-Italian:
    • Friulian: lodule, odule
    • Ladino: lodola
    • Ligurian: lödoa
    • Lombard: lodra, lodla, lodna, loldra, lolda, loda
    • Piedmontese: lodna, lodra
    • Romansh: lodola
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Spanish: alondra
  • Sardinian: allòdola
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *alaudea
  • Spanish: aloja, aloya
• Borrowings:
  • → Translingual: Alauda, genus

References

• “alauda”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "alauda", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “alauda”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “alauda”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “alauda”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
• Fryske Academy (1998): Lezingen fan it fjirtjinde Frysk Filologekongres: 23, 24 en 25 oktober 1996
• Reichart, L. (2000): Kratylos, Volume 45