Noun: rugiada
Gender: f
Hyphenation: ru‧già‧da
| Singular f | rugiada |
| Plural f | rugiade |
countable and uncountable
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like rugiada
monferrina,
ossichinolina,
palestra,
nipoteria,
gualdrappa,
bacinella,
minicassetta,
bestemmia,
geostoria,
sferra,
sferza,
sfilza,
triplofonia,
fiduciaria,
meteoroscopia,
ipersonnia,
sovrabbondanza,
corbezzola,
pseudoestesia,
viminata, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Ultimately from Vulgar Latin *rōsāta, from Latin rōs, 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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3. As ⟨VgiV⟩ has since the late thirteenth century in Tuscany denoted [ʒ] (later 'amended' to [d͡ʒ] in Standard Italian), ⟨rugiada⟩ would be the expected spelling for a pronunciation like [ruˈʒaːda]. As it happens, [ʒ] is a common intervocalic outcome of Latin /s/ in Gallo-Italic, for instance in the modern dialects bordering northeastern Tuscany. See: Latin Nouns '
rōs'.
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