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valonia

/vəˈloʊ.ni.ə/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
val-o-nia
IPA
/vəˈloʊ.ni.ə/
10
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Any member of the species Quercus macrolepis, now subspecies Quercus ithaburensis subsp. macrolepis or Quercus aegilops of European evergreen oak trees

noun

Dried acorn cups of this tree, which are used to make a black dye used in tanning.

Etymology

From the Venetan name Valona of the now Albanian city Vlorë around which it grows, unlike in Italy. One of the principal sources of tannin in the English-speaking world in the late 19th century, largely imported from the Ottoman Empire, with Smyrna being the main trading centre for it, whence to Trieste it passed the first time in 1842 to reach the Austro-Hungarian leather industry and become popular in Germany only by the 1880s.

Word Breakdown

Regional Pronunciation

  • American English: /vəˈloʊ.ni.ə/
  • British English: /vəˈləʊ.ni.ə/

Inflected Forms

valonias (plural) valonia oak (alternative) velani (alternative) velani oak (alternative) valonea (alternative) valonea oak (alternative) vallonea (alternative) vallonea oak (alternative)

Phrases

dyer's oak Aleppo oak black oak

Frequently Paired Words

dyer's oak Aleppo oak black oak

Rhymes With

pneumonia ammonia catalonia sonya livonia begonia estonia macedonia patagonia babylonia snowdonia franconia

Questions

How do you pronounce valonia?
The recorded pronunciation is /vəˈloʊ.ni.ə/.
What does valonia mean?
Any member of the species Quercus macrolepis, now subspecies Quercus ithaburensis subsp. macrolepis or Quercus aegilops of European evergreen oak trees
Where does valonia come from?
From the Venetan name Valona of the now Albanian city Vlorë around which it grows, unlike in Italy. One of the principal sources of tannin in the English-speaking world in the late 19th century, largely imported from the Ottoman Empire, with Smyrna being the main trading centre for it, whence to Trieste it passed the first time in 1842 to reach the Austro-Hungarian leather industry and become popular in Germany only by the 1880s.

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