laubia

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

    From Frankish *laubijā (“shelter, arbour”). First attested from a document in Milan dated 865.

    Noun

    laubia f (genitive laubiae); first declension[1][2] (Early Medieval Latin)

    1. (architecture) penthouse, gallery, arcade, portico, lodge

    Declension

    First-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative laubia laubiae
    genitive laubiae laubiārum
    dative laubiae laubiīs
    accusative laubiam laubiās
    ablative laubiā laubiīs
    vocative laubia laubiae

    Descendants

    • Rhaeto-Romance:
      • Romansh: lautga, loptga, lobgia
    • Gallo-Italic:
      • Lombard: lòbia, lobja
      • Piedmontese: lòbia
        • → Franco-Provençal: lòbia (Valdôtain)
    • Gallo-Romance:
      • Franco-Provençal: louye
      • Old French: loege, logge, loge (see there for further descendants)
    • →? Old French: *lobie
      • → Middle English:
        • English: lobby (see there for further descendants)
        • Scots: lobby

    References

    1. ^ Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “laubia”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 584
    2. ^ "laubia", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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