diurnata

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Latin

Etymology

From diurnus (“daily; a day”) + -āta, feminine of -ātus, or a reborrowing from Romance from *diurnāta.

Pronunciation

Noun

diurnāta f (genitive diurnātae); first declension

  1.  (Medieval Latin) a day's work, a day's journey; a day
    • 1144-1167, “LXXXIX. L'abbé Jean 1er de Waha atteste diverses donations faites au prieuré de Saint-Thibaut à Château-Porcien”, in Godefroid Kurth, editor, Chartes de l'Abbaye de Saint-Hubert en Ardenne, published 1903:
      Postea ipsius prefati [G]erardi filius eodem nomine vocatus dedit Sancto Teobaldo quatuordecim denarios census et sex diurnatas terrae et foragia[que] tenebat in prefato castro.
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Usage notes

This word clearly existed in Proto-Romance times. However, the only available attestation is in a 12th-century Belgian charter (see quotation above), which may have been developed from Old French jornee without awareness of the Proto-Romance form.

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative diurnāta diurnātae
Genitive diurnātae diurnātārum
Dative diurnātae diurnātīs
Accusative diurnātam diurnātās
Ablative diurnātā diurnātīs
Vocative diurnāta diurnātae

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