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Italian
Etymology
Inherited from Latin āreola, diminutive of ārea (“open space”). By surface analysis, aia (“threshing floor”) + -ola (diminutive suffix). Compare borrowed doublet areola. Compare Sicilian ariu.
Pronunciation
Noun
aiuola f (plural aiuole)
- flowerbed, bed
13th century, “Degli Spinaci”, in Trattato dell'agricoltura [Treatise On Agriculture], translation of Opus ruralium commodorum libri Ⅻ by Pietro De' Crescenzi, published 1605, page 361:Seminansi sole anche nell'aiuole, e mischiati ancora con l'altre erbe- They are also planted alone in flowerbeds, and mixed with other herbs
- (archaic, poetic, metonymically) land, earth
1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXII”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 151–153; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:L'aiuola che ci fa tanto feroci,
volgendom'io con li etterni Gemelli,
tutta m'apparve da' colli alle foci- The land that makes us so fierce, while I was revolving along with the eternal Twins, all appeared to me, from the hills to the harbours/harbors
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