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44. Apiieresis. —These cases are many and will be 
grouped as follows: (a) feminine nouns, (b) masculine 
nouns, and adjectives, (c) verbs, (d) other words. 
(a) Bacoeca, for albicocca; 1 badessa, badia, etc., from abba- 
tissa, etc.; bistarda from avis-tarda; 2 3 bottega, from It 
bozzima, from diro^ixaf gaggia, from cUa/a a; gazza; 4 go- 
mena; 5 6 guglia, for obsolete aguglia, from * acucula; labandina, 
for alabandina (a precious stone, from alabandina (scilicet 
gemma), from Alabanda, a city of Caria) ; labarda, from ala- 
bard a (whatever the form of the etymon, the Italian presup¬ 
poses alabarda, -cf. French hallebarde) ; Lamagna, for Ala- 
magna (and Magna, a double apheresis) ; lena, from obsolete 
alena; lodola, from alauda; mandorla, mandola, from dfJLvySaXr], 
dfxvySaXa ; 8 manza, from amantia; marena (=“bibita fatta 
con siroppo di ciliege amarasche”) and marasco (and mara¬ 
schino), from amarus, with Romance endings; mirazione, for 
ammirazione; mista, for amista; morchia (—Tultimia feccia 
delPolio”), from *amurcula <amurca (in Pliny, same mean¬ 
ing, from dfxopyrj ); morosa, for amorosa, wlience also il 8 
moroso, for 1 J amoroso; notomia, for anatomia; 7 Kunziata, for 
Annunziata, whether the “festa,” the church, the work of art, 
or the name of a person; pecchia, for apecchia, from apicula; 
pocalissi, for apocalisse; postema, from apostema, dvroo-r^/xa; 
§44. Note 1. From the form abbicocca, apparently, with LB assimi¬ 
lated to BB, as abbergare, for albergare (and iddio for il dio). Tbia 
word, starting from Latin praecoquum, then passing into Arabic and 
annexing the Arabic article al, before returning into Europe, offers 
many forms due in part to analogy; bacocca, albicocca, albercocca, 
bericocola, bellicocoro, ballacocora, albricocca, biricoccola, and deriva¬ 
tives. 
2. English bustard; the forms in U are exclusively English, ac¬ 
cording to the Oxford Dictionary. For ottarda, see §78. 
3. Caix, Studi, No. 217, suggests the derivation as Spanish bizma. 
4. From OHGerm, agaza; gazzera, agazza, and agassa, are also found. 
5. ="Grosso canapo a cui s’attacca l’ancora”; according to Canello, 
from acumina, plural of acumen, (the form agumena is also found). 
But there is considerable doubt about the etymology,—see Canello, 
AG III 324, Tobler, XRPh. IV 182, Caix, Studi No. 79, Diez, Etym. 
Worterbuch s I, 217 and Flechia, AG IV 386. 
6. See Grober, ALL 1 240, who postulates amidala, am§ndola, am&n- 
dola, = amygdala. 
7. Notomizzare is the usual modern word meaning to “analyze". 
8. Cf. French apostume, with U because of the following labial(?), or 
-umen. 
