noctule

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Scrabble points
9
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13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈnɒktjuːl/ (UK)
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/ˈnɒktjuːl/ (UK) · /ˈnɑkt͡ʃul/ (US)

Definition of noctule

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

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

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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.

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