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Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin autumnus (“autumn, fall”), of uncertain etymology. First attested in 1306, replacing several inherited forms (cf. proto-Italian octummio, attested in a Latin document from 762, via Late Latin autumnius). The Latin etymon is directly continued by Romanian toamnă, Aromanian toamnã (unless these reflect the variant in a-), Italian autono (Northern Italy, 15th c.), Romansch utuon (Engadine), Spanish otoño (→ Logudorese Sardinian atónzu, Campidanese atógniu), Portuguese outono, and via Vulgar Latin *atumnus by Friulian atum (“october”), Romansch atun (Sursilvan), aton (Surmiran). Provençal autoun (“autumn harvest”) could be Latin-influenced; French autonne is likely, and Catalan autumne certain to be a borrowing from Latin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /awˈtun.no/
- Rhymes: -unno
- Hyphenation: au‧tùn‧no
Noun
autunno m (plural autunni)
- autumn, (US) fall
c. 1500, Leonardo da Vinci, “Il paesaggio”, in G. Fumagalli, editor, Leonardo Prosatore, scelta di scritti Vinciani, Milan: Albrighi, published 1915, →OCLC, page 239:Nello autunno farai le cose secondo l’età di tal tempo, cioè nel principio li alberi cominciare a impallidire le foglie ne’ più vecchi rami, più o meno secondo che la pianta è figurata in loco sterile o fertile, e ancora più pallide e rosseggianti a quelle specie d’alberi i quali furono primi a fare i loro frutti.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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