Meaning of noctula | Babel Free

Definitions

1. presumably same sense as noctua
   Late-Latin, declension-1, feminine
2. latinisation of the Italian nottola (name for various bats and birds)
   Medieval-Latin, declension-1, feminine
3. a noctule
   New-Latin, declension-1, feminine

Examples

“iubebant nutrientibus ut ubera omnium animalium manducarent vespertilionum etiam conbustorum vel noctule cineres cum vino bibere dabant vel cum aqua solutum”

They would have nursing women eat the udders of any animal and even drink solutions of water or wine containing the ashes of incinerated bats or night-owl(s).

“Ululae sunt aves nocturnales, dictae ab ululatione vocis quam efferunt, quas vulgo cavones vel noctulas dicunt.”

Screech-owls are nocturnal birds named after the cacophany that they emit. They are called cavones or noctulas in the vernacular.

“et medietatem castellarii seu casalis quod dicitur Gripta de Noctulis …and half of the estate known as Gripta de Noctulis [sc. Grotta di Nottole]…”

“(Page 17:) VESPERTILIO NOCTULA. [...] Noctula quam Ao. 1782. d. 13. Februarii deciduam ex templo cepi, in museo meo scatulae inclusa hybernare continuavit, quamvis quotidie calefieret. [...] In alia tertio fructiferi mensis anni 6. die (1794. Augusto) mihi allata, quam ego eandem cum Noctula esse puto, color in dorso et ventre uniformiter fuscus, membrana alarum auresque nigrae. (Page 172:) Vespertilionem noctulam vivam clamosamque, etiam praetereuntium calceis navali pice forte imbutam, tamen avide petiit, diverberatamque diu rostro tandem deglutiit.”

(Page 17:) [....] On the thirteenth of February, 1782, I took a fallen Noctula from a cathedral and placed it in a chest in my study, where it continued to hibernate despite the warmth. [....] (Page 172:) [The Ardea ciconia] eagerly chased down a Vespertilio noctula, even though the latter was thoroughly stained with pitch from the boots of passers-by, and after brutally pecking it for quite some time, finally swallowed it alive and screaming.

“Secretum in Vespertilione murino et V. noctula foetidum atque adiposum auctore Ill. Tiedemann alis lubricandis inservit.”

[The species] Vespertilio murinus and Vespertilio noctula use a foul greasy secretion to lubricate their wings, according to Tiedemann.

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