noctule

== English == === Etymology === Borrowed from French noctule, a latinised scientific borrowing of the Italian nottola (refers to various birds or bats), inherited from Late Latin noctula, diminutive of Classical Latin noctua (“night-owl”), ultimately from Latin nox (“night”), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. Per the OED, first attested in English in 1771. === Pronunciation === (UK) IPA(key): /ˈnɒktjuːl/ (US) IPA(key): /ˈnɑkt͡ʃul/ === Noun === noctule (plural noctules) A bat, of the genus Nyctalus, that lives in tree hollows. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Descendants ==== →? Catalan: nòctul → Spanish: nóctulo ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === Lecount == French == === Etymology === Coined in 1760 by Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton (quoted below) as a latinised borrowing of the Italian nottola (name for various bats and birds). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /nɔk.tyl/ === Noun === noctule f (plural noctules) noctule ==== Descendants ==== → English: noctule→? Catalan: nòctul→ Spanish: nóctulo → New Latin: noctula === Further reading === “noctule”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012