lauto

Galician

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lautus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlawto/ [ˈlɑw.t̪ʊ]
• Rhymes: -awto
• Hyphenation: lau‧to

Adjective

lauto (feminine lauta, masculine plural lautos, feminine plural lautas)

1. sumptuous, opulent, lavish, magnificent

References

• Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “lauto”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin lautus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaw.to/
• Rhymes: -awto
• Hyphenation: làu‧to

Adjective

lauto (feminine lauta, masculine plural lauti, feminine plural laute)

1. rich, abundant, large, lavish

   una lauta colazione ― a hearty breakfast

Related terms

• lautamente

Further reading

• lauto in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Latin

Participle

lautō

1. dative/ablative masculine/neuter singular of lautus

Venetian

Etymology

Cognate with Italian liuto, leuto, Old French leüt, Old Occitan laüt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /laˈuto/

Noun

lauto m (plural lauti)

1. lute

   magro come un lauto ― lanky, scrawny (literally, “skinny as a lute”)

   • a. 1388, Commento all'Ars amandi (D), book 3, lines 319–20:

     ma anchoy ello è despresiado et desudado, et en luogo de quella céra fi usado anchoy lo lauto, la chitarra et lo meço canon

     but today it is disregarded and disused, and instead of that cithara today we use the lute, the guitar and the mezzocannone

Descendants

• → Albanian: lahutë
• → Aromanian: lãutã
• → Bulgarian: лау́та (laúta)
• → Greek: λαούτο (laoúto) (see there for further descendants)
• → Macedonian: лаута (lauta)
• → Ottoman Turkish: لاؤطه (lauta)
  • Turkish: lavta (see there for further descendants)
  • → Armenian: լավութա (lavutʻa)

References

• “laùto”, in el Galepin – www.elgalepin.com
• Boerio, Giuseppe (1867) “lauto”, in Dizionario del dialetto veneziano, 3rd edition, Venice: G. Cecchini, page 363b

Further reading

• Rocchi, Luciano (2013) “Gli italianismi nei testi turchi in trascrizione”, in Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie‎^[1] (in Italian), volume 129, number 4, § 74, page 905
• Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “lavta”, in Nişanyan Sözlük, retrieved 2020-12-26

Votic

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• (Luutsa, Liivtšülä) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑu̯toː/, [ˈɫɑu̯to]
• Rhymes: -ɑu̯toː
• Hyphenation: lau‧to

Noun

lauto

1. shelf

Inflection

Declension of lauto (type I/maa, no gradation)
	singular	plural
nominative	lauto	lautod
genitive	lauto	lautoijõ
partitive	lautotõ	lautoitõ
illative	lautoho, lautohosõ	lautoisõ
inessive	lautoz	lautoiz
elative	lautossõ	lautoissõ
allative	lautolõ	lautoilõ
adessive	lautollõ	lautoillõ
ablative	lautoltõ	lautoiltõ
translative	lautossi	lautoissi
*) the accusative corresponds with either the genitive (sg) or nominative (pl) **) the terminative is formed by adding the suffix -ssaa to the short illative (sg) or the genitive. ***) the comitative is formed by adding the suffix -ka to the genitive.

References

• Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “lautoo”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn