Noun: noctule
Gender: f
Hyphenation:
| Singular f | noctule |
| Plural f | noctules |
Sample Sentences
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La troisième espèce, que nous appellerons la noctule, du mot italien nottola... (The third species, which we shall call the noctule, from the Italian word nottola...) [1760, Georges-Louis Leclerc, Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton, Histoire Naturelle, volume VIII:]
Nouns inflected like noctule
polémochorie,
kératotomie,
farigoule,
compréhension,
palestre,
abnégation,
hyperuricémie,
psychométrie,
minicassette,
piézo-électricité,
potabilité,
aromathérapie,
conjugalité,
conjugaison,
cohésion,
obscurité,
bacillose,
cohæsion,
aponévrotomie,
sylvie, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Coined in 1760 by Louis Jean-Marie Daubenton (quoted below) as a latinised borrowing of the Italian nottola (name for various bats and birds). See: Italian Nouns '
nottola'.
Verbs referencing "noctule"
English Nouns
noctule, Catalan Nouns
nòctul, Latin Nouns
noctula.
Translations