agnellus

Latin

From agnus (“lamb”) +‎ -ellus (diminutive suffix).

agnellus m (genitive agnellī); second declension

Second-declension noun.

Balkan Romance:
- Aromanian: njel
- Istro-Romanian: ml'e
- Megleno-Romanian: ńel, mń'iel
- Romanian: miel
Dalmatian:
- anjial, agnial (Vegliot)
Italo-Romance:
- Italian: agnello
- Neapolitan: ainiello, agniello, agnieddo, aunieddo
- Sicilian: agneddu, agnieddu, agnellu
Padanian:
- Friulian: agnel
- Istriot: agnel, agnai
- Romagnol: agnel, agneal
- Romansch: agnè
- Venetan: agneło, gnel
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal: agnél
- Old French: aignel, agnel, agniau
  - Bourguignon: aigneâ
  - Champenois: angné
  - Franc-Comtois: aigné
  - French: agneau
  - Gallo: agnë
  - Norman: angné
  - Picard: aigneu
  - Poitevin-Saintongeais: agna, egna
  - Walloon: agnea
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Occitan: anhèl
- Old Catalan: anyell
  - Old Catalan: anyell
  - → Old Spanish: añel (Berceo)^[1]

AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1071: “l'agnello; gli agnelli” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
Meyer-Lübke, Wilhelm (1911) “agnellus”, in Romanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), page 19
Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “agnĕllus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 24: Refonte A–Aorte, page 264

^ Joan Coromines, José A[ntonio] Pascual (1984) “añino”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic Etymological Dictionary] (in Spanish), volume I (A–Ca), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 289