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Latin
Etymology
Ellipsis of nux abellāna f (“Abellan nut”), from Abella (“Avella, an Italian city”) + -ānus (“-an: forming related nouns and adjectives”).
Pronunciation 1
Noun
abellāna f (genitive abellānae); first declension
- filbert, hazelnut
Declension
First-declension noun.
Descendants
- Balkan Romance: (< VL. *abellona)
- Italo-Romance:
- Padanian:
- Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
Pronunciation 2
Noun
abellānā f
- ablative singular of abellāna
References
- abellana in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- R. E. Latham, D. R. Howlett, & R. K. Ashdowne, editors (1975–2013), “abellana”, in Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources, London: Oxford University Press for the British Academy, →ISBN, →OCLC