Lousonna

Lousonna ?

1. alternative form of Losanna

• Lausanna
• Lausōnium

Connected to *lausa (“slab”), named after a cult stone that could be seen near Lausanne until the 19^th century.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ɫuːˈsɔn.na]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [luˈs̬ɔn.na]

Lousonna f sg (genitive Lousonnae); first declension

1. Lausanne

First-declension noun, with locative, singular only.

• "LOUSONNA" by V. Von Gonzenbach in Richard Stillwell, William L[loyd] MacDonald, Marian Holland McAllister, editors, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical Sites, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1976.
• Hubschmied, Johann Ulrich (1938) “Sprachliche Zeugen für das späte Aussterben des Gallischen”, in Vox Romanica‎^[1] (in German), volume 3, →DOI, page 102 of 48–155
• Schuchardt, Hugo (1882) “V. Etymologisches. 1. Spanisch-portugiesische Etymologien”, in Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie (in German), volume 6, page 424