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Italian
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Etymology
Ultimately from Vulgar Latin *rōsāta but borrowed, at least in the form rugiada, from some Gallo-Italic language. The form in question is first documented in the late thirteenth century, as are both of the more indigenous-looking variants above.
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As ⟨VgiV⟩ has since the late thirteenth century in Tuscany denoted (later 'corrected' to in Standard Italian), ⟨rugiada⟩ would be the expected spelling for a pronunciation like . As it happens, is a common intervocalic outcome of Latin in Gallo-Italic, for instance in the modern dialects bordering northeastern Tuscany.
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Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ruˈd͡ʒa.da/
- Rhymes: -ada
- Hyphenation: ru‧già‧da
Noun
rugiada f (plural rugiade)
- dew
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