aucellus

Latin

Etymology

Masculinisation of aucella, contraction of avicella, diminutive of avicula, itself a diminutive of avis f (“bird”). Attested from the fourth century CE.^[1]

Noun

aucellus m (genitive aucellī); second declension (Late Latin)

(little) bird
(Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) sparrow^[2]

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	aucellus	aucellī
genitive	aucellī	aucellōrum
dative	aucellō	aucellīs
accusative	aucellum	aucellōs
ablative	aucellō	aucellīs
vocative	aucelle	aucellī

Descendants

Italo-Romance:
- Corsican: acellu, ucellu, ocellu, aceddu
- Istriot: uzai pl
- Italian: uccello
  - → Ido: ucelo
- Neapolitan: auciello
- Sicilian: aceddu, acieddu, ancieddu, auceddu, uceddu
North Italian:
- Gallo-Italic:
  - Emilian: usel
  - Ligurian: öxéllo, ouxello, euxèl
  - Lombard: olcell, oxell
  - Piedmontese: osel, ausel, usel
- Friulian: uciel
- Romansch: utschè, utschi (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan), utschel (Surmiran)
- Venetan: oxeło, oxèƚo, oxèl, oṡeo, oseo
Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: usél
- Old French: oisel, hoysel, oesel, oicel, oisal, oiseal, oiseaul, oiseel, oiseil, oisell, oiseul, oisil, oisseil, oissel, osel, ossel, oyseal, oysel, oysele, yseal
  - Angevin: oisiau
  - Bourbonnais-Berrichon: oisiau
  - Bourguignon: ouseâ
  - Champenois: ôgé
  - Franc-Comtois: ôsé
  - French: oiseau
  - Gallo: ouézai
  - Lorrain: ougeil, ougé (Barrois)
  - Norman: ouaîsé, ouésé, ouaîthé, weze
  - Poitevin-Saintongeais: osea
  - Picard: oisieu
  - Walloon: oujhea
Occitano-Romance:
- Old Catalan: auzell, ausel, aucel
  - Catalan: ocell, aucell, auzell
- Gascon: ausèth, aujèth
- Old Occitan: auzel, aucel, ausel, auzelh
  - Occitan: aucèl, ausèl, auseu
    Southern Lengadocian: ausèlh
    
    Vivaro-Alpine: oseu
  - → Italian: augello

References

^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “aucellus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 796
^ “Archived copy of AUCELLUS”, in DicoLatin‎^[1], 2016 June 13 (last accessed), archived from the original on 29 April 2019

[1] Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “aucellus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volumes 25: Refonte Apaideutos–Azymus, page 796

[2] “Archived copy of AUCELLUS”, in DicoLatin‎^[1], 2016 June 13 (last accessed), archived from the original on 29 April 2019

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