rugiada

Concepts

dew

foam

Synonyms

brina

pioviggine

guazza

quazz’ra

guazza

spuma

galaverna

Translations

rosée

rocío

Tau

orvalho

dauw

rosada

ندى

rocio

llovizna

riço

δροσιά

escarcha

πάχνη

relente

Hyphenated as

ru‧già‧da

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ruˈd͡ʒa.da/

Etymology

Ultimately from Vulgar Latin *rōsāta, from Latin rōs, but borrowed, at least in the form rugiada, from some Gallo-Italic language. The form in question is first documented in the late thirteenth century, as are both of the more indigenous-looking variants above.
More information
As ⟨VgiV⟩ has since the late thirteenth century in Tuscany denoted [ʒ] (later 'amended' to [d͡ʒ] in Standard Italian), ⟨rugiada⟩ would be the expected spelling for a pronunciation like [ruˈʒaːda]. As it happens, [ʒ] is a common intervocalic outcome of Latin /s/ in Gallo-Italic, for instance in the modern dialects bordering northeastern Tuscany.