quaglia
Italian
Etymology
From Vulgar Latin *coacla, from contraction of Late Latin coacula or quaccola, of imitative origin[1][2][3][4]. Cf. also Late Latin qualea. Alternatively, of ultimately Germanic origin[5]; compare French caille, Occitan calha, Catalan guatlla, Galician coalla, Friulian cuaie, Romansch quacra.
Pronunciation
Noun
quaglia f (plural quaglie)
- quail; properly the common quail
Verb
quaglia
- third-person singular present indicative of quagliare
- second-person singular imperative of quagliare
References
- ^ quaglia in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana
- ^ quàglia in sapere.it – De Agostini Editore
- ^ quaglia in garzantilinguistica.it – Garzanti Linguistica, De Agostini Scuola Spa
- ^ http://tlio.ovi.cnr.it/TLIO/
- ^ Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “quaglia”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
Categories:
- Italian terms inherited from Vulgar Latin
- Italian terms derived from Vulgar Latin
- Italian terms inherited from Late Latin
- Italian terms derived from Late Latin
- Italian terms derived from Germanic languages
- Italian 2-syllable words
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- Italian nouns
- Italian countable nouns
- Italian feminine nouns
- Italian non-lemma forms
- Italian verb forms
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