laubia

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Frankish *laubijā (“shelter, arbour”). First attested from a document in Milan dated 865.

Pronunciation

Noun

laubia f (genitive laubiae); first declension[1][2] (Medieval Latin)

  1. (architecture) penthouse, gallery, arcade, portico, lodge

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative laubia laubiae
Genitive laubiae laubiārum
Dative laubiae laubiīs
Accusative laubiam laubiās
Ablative laubiā laubiīs
Vocative laubia laubiae

Descendants
  • Padanian:
    • Lombard: lòbia, lobja
    • Piedmontese: lòbia
      • → Franco-Provençal: lòbia (Valdôtain)
    • Romansch: lautga, loptga, lobgia
  • Northern Gallo-Romance:
    • Franco-Provençal: louye
    • Old French: loege, logge, loge (see there for further descendants)
  • →? Old French: *lobie
    • → Middle English:
      • English: lobby (see there for further descendants)
      • Scots: lobby

References
  1. Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976), “laubia”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 584
  2. laubia in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
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