noctua

See also: Noctua

Latin

Etymology

From the feminine of an unattested adjective *noctuus, from noctū (“by night”) + -us.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈnɔk.tu.a]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈnɔk.tu.a]

Noun

noctua f (genitive noctuae); first declension

1. owl (small)

   Near-synonyms: būbō, strix, ulula, parra

Declension

First-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	noctua	noctuae
genitive	noctuae	noctuārum
dative	noctuae	noctuīs
accusative	noctuam	noctuās
ablative	noctuā	noctuīs
vocative	noctua	noctuae

Derived terms

• noctuīnus
• noctula

Descendants

• Translingual: Noctua
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *noctuolus
  • Catalan: mussol
• ⇒? Old Spanish: nechuza
  • ⇒ Spanish: lechuza

References

• “noctua”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “noctua”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “noctua”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.