noctula

== Latin == === Etymology === From noctua (“night-owl”) +‎ -ula (diminutive suffix). Sense 2 borrowed from Italian nottola and sense 3 from French noctule, both ultimately derived from the Latin word (sense 1). Among the earliest examples of its scientific usage is the species name Nyctalus noctula, coined in 1774 by Schreber. === Pronunciation === (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ˈnɔk.tu.la] === Noun === noctula f (genitive noctulae); first declension (Late Latin, hapax legomenon) presumably same sense as noctua (Medieval Latin) latinisation of the Italian nottola (name for various bats and birds) (New Latin, biology) a noctule ==== Declension ==== First-declension noun. ==== Descendants ==== Italian: nottola (see there for further descendants) Old French: nuitre Venetan: nòtoła Forms showing a forward shift in stress, as if *noctulla: Franco-Provençal: itoulă, niétôla Old Occitan: nucholaOccitan: nichola, nechola, nuechora === References === Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “nŏctua”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 7: N–Pas, page 163