quaccola

Latin

Alternative forms

  • quacara, quacquara, quaquara, quacula, qualea, quasquaila

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly from Proto-Italic *kwakklā, from earlier *kwaktlā, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷóǵ⁽ʰ⁾-tl-eh₂, from *kʷeǵ⁽ʰ⁾- (“to flee”), or perhaps borrowed from cognate Proto-West Germanic *hwahtlā (“quail”). Possible doublet of cōturnīx, cocturnīx (“quail”). Apparently reborrowed back into Proto-West Germanic as *kwattulā.

First attested in the eighth-century Reichenau Glossary. The late attestation points to a borrowing from Germanic.

Noun

quaccola f (genitive quaccolae); first declension[1] (Early Medieval Latin)

  1. quail

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative quaccola quaccolae
genitive quaccolae quaccolārum
dative quaccolae quaccolīs
accusative quaccolam quaccolās
ablative quaccolā quaccolīs
vocative quaccola quaccolae

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (1985), “coacula”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 331
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