noctula.
presumably same sense as noctua
Meaning & usage
presumably same sense as noctua
latinisation of the Italian nottola (name for various bats and birds)
a noctule
Where this word comes from
From noctua (“night-owl”) + -ula (diminutive suffix). Sense 2 borrowed from Italian nottola and sense 3 from French noctule, both ultimately derived from the Latin word (sense 1). Among the earliest examples of its scientific usage is the species name Nyctalus noctula, coined in 1774 by Schreber.
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