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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. Compare Sicilian auceḍḍu.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /awˈd͡ʒɛl.lo/
- Rhymes: -ɛllo
- Hyphenation: au‧gèl‧lo
Noun
augello m (plural augelli) (archaic, poetic)
- bird
- Synonym: uccello
1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXIII”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 1–3; 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: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 [Barbarian Odes], 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