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Verb

ulula

1. third-person singular present indicative form of ulular
2. second-person singular imperative form of ulular

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: ululas, ululât

Verb

ulula

1. third-person singular past historic of ululer

Italian

Verb

ulula

1. third-person singular present indicative of ululare
2. second-person singular imperative of ululare

Latin

Etymology

From the imitative Proto-Indo-European root *up- (see also Latvian ũpis ‘eagle-owl’, Czech úpěti ‘to wail, howl’, Avestan ufyeimi ‘to call out’, English owl)^[1].^[2]

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈu.lu.la/, [ˈʊ.ɫʊ.ɫa]

Noun

ulula f ‎(genitive ululae); first declension

1. screech-owl, tawny owl

Inflection

First declension.

Verb

ululā

1. second-person singular present active imperative of ululō

References

• ulula in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• ulula in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “ulula”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.

1. ↑ Rick Derksen, Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon, s.vv. “vъpìti”, “vypь” (Leiden: Brill, 1998), pp. 532:535.
2. ↑ Vladimir Orel, A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, s.vv. “*uwwalōn”, “*uwwōn”, “*ūfaz ~ *ūfōn” (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 436.

Portuguese

Verb

ulula

1. third-person singular present indicative of ulular
2. second-person singular imperative of ulular

Spanish

Verb

ulula

1. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present indicative form of ulular.
2. Informal second-person singular (tú) affirmative imperative form of ulular.