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ululo

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See also: ululó and ululò

Catalan

Verb

ululo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ulular

Italian

Verb

ululo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ululare

Latin

Etymology

From a reduplicated Proto-Indo-European imitative root; see also Irish uileliugh (wail of lamentation), Lithuanian uluti (howl), Sanskrit उलूलि (ulūli, a howling, crying aloud), Ancient Greek ὀλολύζω (ololúzō, to cry aloud), Old Armenian ողողանամ (ołołanam), ողողանիմ (ołołanim, to wail, lament), dialectal Armenian ուլուլալ (ululal, to weep, cry, lament), and Old English ūle (whence English owl).

Pronunciation

Verb

ululō (present infinitive ululāre, perfect active ululāvī, supine ululātum); first conjugation

  1. to howl

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Gallo-Romance:
    • Aragonese: otular, atular, otilar, tular, utilar
      Benasqués: udular
    • Catalan: udolar, adular
    • Old French: uler, usler
    • Gascon: uglar
    • Occitan: ulodar, odular
      Limousin: udlar
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Galician: ouvear, ouviar, auvear, auviar, oulear
    • Asturian: ullar, aullar, agullar, oullar, uchar, auchar
    • Portuguese: uivar, uviar, uivear, ouvar, oivar, ovar, oviar, uvar, uver, uliar, ugar
    • Spanish: aullar
  • Vulgar Latin: ūrulāre
  • Borrowings:

References

  • ululo”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • ululo”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • ululo”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
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Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • Rhymes: -ulu
  • Hyphenation: u‧lu‧lo

Etymology 1

Noun

ululo m (plural ululos)

  1. howl, ululation

Etymology 2

Verb

ululo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ulular

Spanish

Verb

ululo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of ulular

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