Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

noctule

/ˈnɑkt͡ʃul/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: noc-tule
IPA: /ˈnɑkt͡ʃul/

9

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A bat, of the genus Nyctalus, that lives in tree hollows.

Example Sentences

"We were all still growing used to the night-time, the blue-veined hours of morning that lay only lightly, the white spiders and noctule bats."

Etymology

Borrowed from French noctule, a latinised scientific borrowing of the Italian nottola (refers to various birds or bats), inherited from Late Latin noctula, diminutive of Classical Latin noctua (“night-owl”), ultimately from Latin nox (“night”), from Proto-Indo-European *nókʷts. Per the OED, first attested in English in 1771.

Origin

Source language: Italian

Word Breakdown

Root: nottola, noctula, noctua, nox, *nókʷts

Regional Pronunciation

American English: /ˈnɑkt͡ʃul/
British English: /ˈnɒktjuːl/

Inflected Forms

noctules (plural)

Phrases

Azores noctule birdlike noctule Chinese noctule common noctule giant noctule greater noctule bat Japanese noctule lesser noctule

Questions

How do you pronounce noctule?: The recorded pronunciation is /ˈnɑkt͡ʃul/.
What does noctule mean?: A bat, of the genus Nyctalus, that lives in tree hollows.
Where does noctule come from?: It is traced to Italian.

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