noctula
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Latin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From noctua (“night-owl”) + -ula (diminutive suffix).
Sense 2 borrowed from Italian nottola and sense 3 from French noctule, both ultimately from sense 1 of the Latin word. Among the earliest examples of its scientific usage is the species name Nyctalus noctula, coined in 1774 by Schreber.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈnok.tu.la/, [ˈnɔkt̪ulä]
Noun
[edit]noctula f (genitive noctulae); first declension
- (Late Latin, hapax) presumably same sense as noctua
- ca. 5th–6th c. CE, Mustio, Gynaecia, section LXXXIII:
- iubebant nutrientibus ut ubera omnium animalium manducarent vespertilionum etiam conbustorum vel noctule cineres cum vino bibere dabant vel cum aqua solutum[1]
- They would have nursing women eat the udders of any animal and even drink solutions of water or wine containing the ashes of incinerated bats or night-owl(s).
- (Medieval Latin) latinisation of the Italian nottola (name for various bats and birds)
- Ca. 1220's, Sermon by Saint Anthony of Padua :
- Ululae sunt aves nocturnales, dictae ab ululatione vocis quam efferunt, quas vulgo cavones vel noctulas dicunt.[2]
- Screech-owls are nocturnal birds named after the cacophany that they emit. They are called cavones or noctulas in the vernacular.
- Ululae sunt aves nocturnales, dictae ab ululatione vocis quam efferunt, quas vulgo cavones vel noctulas dicunt.[2]
- 1338, Deed of sale in Vicovaro, Italy :
- et medietatem castellarii seu casalis quod dicitur Gripta de Noctulis[3]
- …and half of the estate known as Gripta de Noctulis [sc. Grotta di Nottole]…
- et medietatem castellarii seu casalis quod dicitur Gripta de Noctulis[3]
- (New Latin, biology) a noctule
- 1804, Johannes Hermann, Observationes zoologicae quibus novae complures aliaeque animalium species describuntur et illustrantur, pages 17, 172:
- (Page 17:) Noctula quam Ao. 1782. d. 13. Februarii deciduam ex templo cepi, in museo meo scatulae inclusa hybernare continuavit, quamvis quotidie calefieret. (Page 172:) Vespertilionem noctulam vivam clamosamque, etiam praetereuntium calceis navali pice forte imbutam, tamen avide petiit, diverberatamque diu rostro tandem deglutiit.
- (Page 17:) On the thirteenth of February, 1782, I took a fallen noctule from a cathedral and placed it in a chest in my study, where it continued to hibernate despite the warmth. (Page 172:) [The Ardea ciconia] eagerly chased down a Vespertilio noctula, even though the latter was thoroughly stained with pitch from the boots of passers-by, and after brutally pecking it for quite some time, finally swallowed it alive and screaming.
- 1830, Johannes Müller, De glandularum secernentium structura penitiori earumque prima formatione in homine atque animalibus, page 40:
- Secretum in Vespertilione murino et V. noctula foetidum atque adiposum auctore Ill. Tiedemann alis lubricandis inservit.
- [The species] Vespertilio murinus and Vespertilio noctula use a foul greasy secretion to lubricate their wings, according to Tiedemann.
Declension
[edit]First-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | noctula | noctulae |
Genitive | noctulae | noctulārum |
Dative | noctulae | noctulīs |
Accusative | noctulam | noctulās |
Ablative | noctulā | noctulīs |
Vocative | noctula | noctulae |
Descendants
[edit]Forms showing a forward shift in stress, as if *noctulla:
References
[edit]- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “nŏctua”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 7: N–Pas, page 163
- ^ Bolton, L. (2015). An Edition, Translation and Commentary of Mustio's Gynaecia (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca. doi:10.11575/PRISM/24848 http://hdl.handle.net/11023/2252 Page 217.
- ^ https://www.santantonio.org/en/sermons/sermoni-domenicali/domenica-x-dopo-pentecoste?latin=1
- ^ Caetani, Gelasio. 1926. Regesta chartarum. Vol II. Page 117.
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