alausa

From Gaulish *alausa, but without any known Celtic correlations, it may ultimately be a substrate borrowing.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [aˈɫau̯.sa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [aˈlaːu̯.sa]

alausa f (genitive alausae); first declension

1. The allis shad

First-declension noun.

• French: alose
• Italian: alosa

• “alausa”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "alausa", 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)