noctula – Latin noun declension

Noun: noctula
Hyphenation:

Gender: Feminine Declension: First

Nominative

Singular	noctula
Plural	noctulae

Genitive

Singular	noctulae
Plural	noctulārum

Dative

Singular	noctulae
Plural	noctulīs

Accusative

Singular	noctulam
Plural	noctulās

Ablative

Singular	noctulā
Plural	noctulīs

Vocative

Singular	noctula
Plural	noctulae

Sample Sentences

iubebant nutrientibus ut ubera omnium animalium manducarent vespertilionum etiam conbustorum vel noctule cineres cum vino bibere dabant vel cum aqua solutum (They would have nursing women eat the udders of any animal and even drink solutions of water or wine containing the ashes of incinerated bats or night-owl(s).) [ca. 5th–6th c. CE, Mustio, Gynaecia, section LXXXIII:]
Ululae sunt aves nocturnales, dictae ab ululatione vocis quam efferunt, quas vulgo cavones vel noctulas dicunt. (Screech-owls are nocturnal birds named after the cacophany that they emit. They are called cavones or noctulas in the vernacular.) [Ca. 1220's, Sermon by Saint Anthony of Padua]
et medietatem castellarii seu casalis quod dicitur Gripta de Noctulis
…and half of the estate known as Gripta de Noctulis [sc. Grotta di Nottole]… [1338, Deed of sale in Vicovaro, Italy]
(Page 17:) VESPERTILIO NOCTULA. [...] Noctula quam Ao. 1782. d. 13. Februarii deciduam ex templo cepi, in museo meo scatulae inclusa hybernare continuavit, quamvis quotidie calefieret. [...] In alia tertio fructiferi mensis anni 6. die (1794. Augusto) mihi allata, quam ego eandem cum Noctula esse puto, color in dorso et ventre uniformiter fuscus, membrana alarum auresque nigrae.
(Page 172:) Vespertilionem noctulam vivam clamosamque, etiam praetereuntium calceis navali pice forte imbutam, tamen avide petiit, diverberatamque diu rostro tandem deglutiit. ((Page 17:) [....] On the thirteenth of February, 1782, I took a fallen Noctula from a cathedral and placed it in a chest in my study, where it continued to hibernate despite the warmth. [....]

(Page 172:) [The Ardea ciconia] eagerly chased down a Vespertilio noctula, even though the latter was thoroughly stained with pitch from the boots of passers-by, and after brutally pecking it for quite some time, finally swallowed it alive and screaming.) [1804, Johannes Hermann, edited by Fridericus Ludovicus Hammer, Observationes zoologicae quibus novae complures aliaeque animalium species describuntur et illustrantur, pages 17, 172:]
Secretum in Vespertilione murino et V. noctula foetidum atque adiposum auctore Ill. Tiedemann alis lubricandis inservit. ([The species] Vespertilio murinus and Vespertilio noctula use a foul greasy secretion to lubricate their wings, according to Tiedemann.) [1830, Johannes Müller, De glandularum secernentium structura penitiori earumque prima formatione in homine atque animalibus, page 40:]

Nouns inflected like noctula

scōria, meschīta, sewera, zōnula, ecclēsia, concurrentia, satira, satura, satyra, sagīna, sagēna, sarīsa, salīva, salīna, sampsa, samara, sacēna, salvia, sabīna, sculna, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. From noctua (“night-owl”) + -ula (diminutive suffix).
2. Sense 2 borrowed from Italian nottola and sense 3 from French noctule, both ultimately derived from the Latin word (sense 1). Among the earliest examples of its scientific usage is the species name Nyctalus noctula, coined in 1774 by Schreber. See: Italian Nouns 'nottola', French Nouns 'noctule'.