betulla

== Italian == === Etymology === From Latin betulla, diminutive of Gaulish *betua, from Proto-Celtic *betwiyos, *betuyā (“birch”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet-. Compare Portuguese bétula, Spanish abedul, Catalan bedoll, French bouleau. === Noun === betulla f (plural betulle) birch === Further reading === betulla in internazionale.it – Dizionario Italiano di Internazionale – Il Nuovo di Mauro betulla in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana == Latin == === Alternative forms === betūla? (Medieval Latin) betula (medieval?, early New Latin) === Etymology === From Gaulish *bitu, from Proto-Celtic *betwiyos, *betuyā, *betu, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷetu-yo-s, *gʷetw-iyo-s, from *gʷet-. Compare Welsh bedwen. See also Latin bitūmen (“tar”), which was instead borrowed through another Italic language. === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [bɛˈtʊl.la] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [beˈtul.la] === Noun === betulla f (genitive betullae); first declension birch tree ==== Notes ==== The form betula as meaning "birch tree" appears to have been discarded from antique lexicography altogether since the 20th century, as it does not appear in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, nor in the Oxford Latin Dictionary. However, betula was common in early New Latin. ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== === References === “betulla”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press