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Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /li.moˈna.ta/
- Rhymes: -ata
- Hyphenation: li‧mo‧nà‧ta
Etymology 1
From limone (“lemon”) + -ata, following the same formation of aranciata (“orange juice”), cedrata (“cedar juice”), citronata (“lemonade”). Compare French limonade, Venetan łimonada.
Noun
limonata f (plural limonate)
- lemonade
- Synonym: citronata (archaic)
1685, Giovanni Benaglia, Relatione del viaggio fatto à Costantinopoli, 3rd edition, Venice: Steffano Curti, page 94f.:[…] si cercava di passare il tempo al meglio che si poteva, non mancando mai sorbetti, limonate, vini preziosi, e regali di confetture, per rendere più grata la conversazione.- we tried to spend time the best way we could, never lacking sorbets, lemonades, precious wines, and jam gifts, to make the conversation more enjoyable.
Descendants
References
Etymology 2
Deverbal formed with the feminine past participle of limonare (“to French kiss”).
Noun
limonata f (plural limonate)
- flirting, hitting on
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Adjective
limonata
- feminine singular of limonato
Participle
limonata f sg
- feminine singular of limonato
Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
Equivalent to lī̆mon/lī̆mō (“lemon”) + -āta (suffix forming nouns).
Pronunciation
Noun
lī̆mōnāta f (genitive lī̆mōnātae); first declension[2][3]
- (New Latin) lemonade
1791, Philippus Henricus Feder, Dissertatio Inauguralis Medica de Cura et Regimine Parturientium, page 48:[…]; potu frequentiori morbo conuenienti, vt aqua limonata, aceto rub. idaei aqua temperato, cereuisia tenui, aestus sanguinis mitigandus; vino, coffea, omnibus spirituosis abstinendum.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1791, Methodus Medendarum Febrium, page 96:In calore febrili diluentia acidiuſcula propinanda, ut decoctum hordei cum oxymelie, limonata;- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
1805, Ioannes Fridericus Hoffmann, De Haemorrhagiis Vterinis Dissertatio, page 35:
1905, Summa Theologiae Moralis: De Praeceptis Dei et Ecclesiae, page 689:Rationem potus non solum aqua habet, sed etiam vinum, cerevisia, varii liquores ut limonata, aqua saccharata, cafeum, thea parva quantitate sacchari admixta, licet per accidens haec etiam nutriant ut cerevisia.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Declension
First-declension noun.
References
- ^ R. G. Mayne (1860) Expository Lexicon of the Terms in Medical & General Science... (overall work in English), page 602: “Līmōnāda, æ, f.”
- ^ Georg Heinr. Luͤnemann’s Doktors der Philoſophie und Rektors am Gymnaſium zu Goͤttingen lateiniſch-deutſches und deutſch-lateiniſches Handwoͤrterbuch nach Imm. Joh. Gerh. Schellers Anlage neu bearbeitet. Zweiter oder deutſch-lateiniſcher Theil, 6th edition (overall work in German), Leipzig, 1826, column 1178: “Limonade, etwa aqua limonāta, ae, f.; oder potus citreus refrigĕrans, us, i, tis, m.”
- ^ Thomas McCarthy (2009) Nunc Loquāmur: Guided Conversations for Latin, second edition (overall work in English), Focus, Hackett Publishing Company, Inc., page 89: “lemonade pōsca citronāta; limonāta; pōtio (-ōnis f.) citrea; limonāta”
Turkish
Etymology
From Ottoman Turkish لیموناطه (limonata), from Italian limonata.
Pronunciation
Noun
limonata (definite accusative limonatayı, plural limonatalar)
- lemonade (still beverage)
Declension