augello

From Old Occitan auzel, from Late Latin aucellus m (“little bird”), a diminutive ultimately based on Latin avis f (“bird”). Doublet of uccello, the native counterpart.

• IPA^(key): /awˈd͡ʒɛl.lo/
• Rhymes: -ɛllo
• Hyphenation: au‧gèl‧lo

augello m (plural augelli) (archaic, poetic)

1. bird

   Synonym: uccello

   • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Paradiso [The Divine Comedy: Paradise] (paperback), Le Monnier, published 2002, Canto XXIII, lines 1–3, page 413:

     Come l'augello, intra l'amate fronde, ¶ posato al nido de' suoi dolci nati ¶ la notte che le cose ci nasconde

     Even as a bird, 'mid the beloved leaves, ¶ quiet upon the nest of her sweet brood ¶ throughout the night, that hideth all things from us

   • 1475, Angelo Poliziano, Stanze de messer Angelo Politiano cominciate per la giostra del magnifico Giuliano di Pietro de Medici‎, collected in Poesie Italiane by Saverio Orlando, Bologna: Biblioteca Universale Rizzoli, published 1988, Book I:

     ove in su’ rami fra novelle fronde ¶ cantano i loro amor soavi augelli

     in whose branches gentle birds sing of their loves among fresh leaves

   • 1850, Giosuè Carducci, Odi Barbare [Barbarian Odes]‎, collected in Poesie, Nicola Zanichelli, published 1906, page 854:

     fósche con volo di sinistri augelli ¶ vengon le nubi

     dark, with the flight of sinister birds, the clouds come

• augello in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana