quaccola
Latin
Alternative forms
- quacara, quacquara, quaquara, quacula, qualea, quasquaila
Etymology
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.
Noun
quaccola f (genitive quaccolae); first declension[1] (Early Medieval Latin)
- quail
- a. 800, Cod. Augiensis perg. CCXLVIII, page 18v column 2 line 1 a fine:
- coturnix ·quaccola·
- coturnix means quail
Declension
First-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | quaccola | quaccolae |
| Genitive | quaccolae | quaccolārum |
| Dative | quaccolae | quaccolīs |
| Accusative | quaccolam | quaccolās |
| Ablative | quaccolā | quaccolīs |
| Vocative | quaccola | quaccolae |
Descendants
References
- Ernout, Alfred, Meillet, Antoine (1985) “coacula”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), 4th edition, with additions and corrections of Jacques André, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 331
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