laubia

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Noun

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

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

Declension

First-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative laubia laubiae
genitive laubiae laubiārum
dative laubiae laubiīs
accusative laubiam laubiās
ablative laubiā laubiīs
vocative laubia laubiae

Descendants

  • Rhaeto-Romance:
    • Romansch: lautga, loptga, lobgia
  • Gallo-Italic:
    • Lombard: lòbia, lobja
    • Piedmontese: lòbia
      • Franco-Provençal: lòbia (Valdôtain)
  • 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)