vespertilio

== Italian == === Etymology === Learned borrowing from Latin vespertīliō. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ves.perˈti.ljo/ Rhymes: -iljo Hyphenation: ve‧sper‧tì‧lio === Noun === vespertilio m (plural vespertili) bat (flying animal) Synonym: pipistrello == Latin == === Etymology === Derived from vesper (“evening”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “vespertīlis < ?”) === Pronunciation === (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [wɛs.pɛrˈtiː.li.oː] (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [ves.perˈtiː.li.o] === Noun === vespertīliō m (genitive vespertīliōnis); third declension a bat (animal) Synonyms: (Late Latin) mūs caecus, (Gallic Late Latin) calva sōrex ==== Declension ==== Third-declension noun. ==== Related terms ==== vesper vespertīnus *vespertillus ==== Descendants ==== Italo-Romance: Neapolitan: sportiglione Ibero-Romance: (both via the nominative?) Asturian: esperteyu Galician: espertello Borrowings: → Italian: vespertilio (learned) → Middle French: vespertille, vespertilion → Translingual: Vespertilio === References === Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911), “vĕspĕrtilio”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 708 Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “vespertilio”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 14: U–Z, page 348 === Further reading === “vespertilio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press “vespertilio”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.