augello

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Italian

Etymology

From Old Occitan auzel, from Late Latin aucellus m (little bird), a diminutive ultimately based on Latin avis f (bird). Doublet of uccello, the native counterpart.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /awˈd͡ʒɛl.lo/
  • Rhymes: -ɛllo
  • Hyphenation: au‧gèl‧lo

Noun

augello m (plural augelli) (archaic, poetic)

  1. bird
    Synonym: uccello
    • 1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXIII”, in Paradiso, lines 1–3; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata, 2nd revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:
      Come l’augello, intra l’amate fronde,
      posato al nido de’ suoi dolci nati
      la notte che le cose ci nasconde []
      Like the bird, among the beloved branches, sitting in the nest of its dear brood, the night which hides things from us
    • 1475, Angelo Poliziano, Stanze de messer Angelo Politiano cominciate per la giostra del magnifico Giuliano di Pietro de Medici, collected in Poesie Italiane by Saverio Orlando, Bologna: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, published 1988, Book I:
      ove in su’ rami fra novelle fronde
      cantano i loro amor soavi augelli
      in whose branches gentle birds sing of their loves among fresh leaves
    • 1850, Giosuè Carducci, Odi Barbare, collected in Poesie, Nicola Zanichelli, published 1906, page 854:
      fósche con volo di sinistri augelli
      vengon le nubi
      dark, with the flight of sinister birds, the clouds come

Further reading

  • augello in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana