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.

Noun

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

1. (little) bird
2. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) sparrow

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