Feminine

aiuola

Meaning

  1. (feminine) flowerbed, bed
  2. (archaic, feminine, metonymically, poetic) land, earth

Frequency

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Hyphenated as
a‧iuò‧la
Pronounced as (IPA)
/aˈjwɔ.la/
Etymology

Inherited from Latin āreola, diminutive of ārea (“open space”). By surface analysis, aia (“threshing floor”) + -ola (diminutive suffix). Compare borrowed doublet areola. Compare Sicilian ariu.

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