Noun: augello
Gender: m
Hyphenation: au‧gèl‧lo
| Singular m | augello |
| Plural m | augelli |
Sample Sentences
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Come l’augello, intra l’amate fronde,
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posato al nido de’ suoi dolci nati
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la notte che le cose ci nasconde […] (Like the bird, among the beloved branches, sitting in the nest of its dear brood, [in] the night which hides things from us […]) [1316–c. 1321, Dante Alighieri, “Canto XXIII”, in Paradiso [Heaven], lines 1–3; republished as Giorgio Petrocchi, editor, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata [The Commedia according to the ancient vulgate], 2ⁿᵈ revised edition, Florence: publ. Le Lettere, 1994:]
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ove in su’ rami fra novelle fronde
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cantano i loro amor soavi augelli (in whose branches gentle birds sing of their loves among fresh leaves) [1475, Angelo Poliziano, Stanze de messer Angelo Politiano cominciate per la giostra del magnifico Giuliano di Pietro de Medici, collected in Poesie Italiane by Saverio Orlando, Bologna: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, published 1988, Book I:]
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fósche con volo di sinistri augelli
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vengon le nubi (dark, with the flight of sinister birds, the clouds come) [1850, Giosuè Carducci, Odi Barbare [Barbarian Odes], collected in Poesie, Nicola Zanichelli, published 1906, page 854:]
Nouns inflected like augello
egocentrismo,
surrogato,
maxicappotto,
diidrofolato,
nipotismo,
buccellato,
bacinetto,
sfrido,
nevometro,
altofondo,
sfarzo,
sfagno,
sforzo,
sfondo,
burchiello,
rosatello,
sciacquamento,
sonnellino,
teletrattamento,
biroccino, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old Occitan auzel, from Late Latin aucellus m (“little bird”), a diminutive ultimately based on Latin avis f (“bird”). Doublet of uccello, the native counterpart. Compare Sicilian auceḍḍu. See: Latin Nouns '
avis'.
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