lauto

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Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lautus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlawto/
  • Rhymes: -awto
  • Hyphenation: lau‧to

Adjective

lauto (feminine lauta, masculine plural lautos, feminine plural lautas)

  1. sumptuous, opulent, lavish, magnificent

References

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lautus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlaw.to/
  • Rhymes: -awto
  • Hyphenation: làu‧to

Adjective

lauto (feminine lauta, masculine plural lauti, feminine plural laute)

  1. rich, abundant, large, lavish
    una lauta colazione ― a hearty breakfast

Further reading

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

Latin

Participle

lautō

  1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of lautus

Venetian

Etymology

Cognate with Italian liuto, leuto, Old French leüt, Old Occitan laüt.

Pronunciation

Noun

lauto m (plural lauti)

  1. lute
    magro come un lauto ― lanky, scrawny (literally, “skinny as a lute”)
    • a. 1388, Commento all'Ars amandi (D), book 3, lines 319–20:
      ma anchoy ello è despresiado et desudado, et en luogo de quella céra fi usado anchoy lo lauto, la chitarra et lo meço canon
      but today it is disregarded and disused, and instead of that cithara today we use the lute, the guitar and the mezzocannone

Descendants

  • → Albanian: lahutë
  • → Aromanian: lãutã
  • → Bulgarian: лау́та (laúta)
  • → Greek: λαούτο (laoúto) (see there for further descendants)
  • → Macedonian: лаута (lauta)
  • → Ottoman Turkish: لاؤطه (lauta)

References

  • “laùto”, in el Galepin – www.elgalepin.com
  • Boerio, Giuseppe (1867) “lauto”, in Dizionario del dialetto veneziano, 3rd edition, Venice: G. Cecchini, page 363b

Further reading

  • Rocchi, Luciano (2013) “Gli italianismi nei testi turchi in trascrizione”, in Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie‎ (in Italian), volume 129, number 4, § 74, page 905
  • Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “lavta”, in Nişanyan Sözlük, retrieved 2020-12-26

Votic

Etymology

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Pronunciation

  • (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA(key): /ˈlɑu̯toː/,
  • Rhymes: -ɑu̯toː
  • Hyphenation: lau‧to

Noun

lauto

  1. shelf

Inflection

Declension of lauto (type I/maa, no gradation)
singular plural
nominative lauto lautod
genitive lauto lautoijõ
partitive lautotõ lautoitõ
illative lautoho, lautohosõ lautoisõ
inessive lautoz lautoiz
elative lautossõ lautoissõ
allative lautolõ lautoilõ
adessive lautollõ lautoillõ
ablative lautoltõ lautoiltõ
translative lautossi lautoissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl)
**) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive.
***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References

  • Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “lautoo”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn
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