Uncertain; possibly from Proto-Italic *kwakklā, from earlier *kwaktlā, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷóǵ⁽ʰ⁾-tl-eh₂, from *kʷeǵ⁽ʰ⁾- (“to flee”), or perhaps borrowed from cognate Proto-West Germanic *hwahtlā (“quail”). Possible doublet of cōturnīx, cocturnīx (“quail”). Apparently reborrowed back into Proto-West Germanic as *kwattulā.
First attested in the eighth-century Reichenau Glossary. The late attestation points to a borrowing from Germanic.
quaccola f (genitive quaccolae); first declension[1] (Early Medieval Latin)
First-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
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nominative | quaccola | quaccolae |
genitive | quaccolae | quaccolārum |
dative | quaccolae | quaccolīs |
accusative | quaccolam | quaccolās |
ablative | quaccolā | quaccolīs |
vocative | quaccola | quaccolae |