lugliatico

Forms

lugliatico (feminine lugliatica, masculine plural lugliatici, feminine plural lugliatiche)^[1]

Etymology

It is formed from Italian luglio + -atico, from the month in which the fruit ripens.^[2][3][4][5] Sabatini–Coletti describes the ending as modelled on aleatico, the name of a grape variety, and the Treccani dictionary also refers to that word.^[6][5] Wiktionary instead treats the word as inherited from Medieval Latin iūliāticus or lūliāticus, and compares Emilian aliadga and Romagnol agliêdga.^[1]

The name of that grape itself comes from the same Emilian word, “July grape”, which Nocentini traces to a Vulgar Latin *iuliatica with uva (“grape”) understood.^[7][8]

The month luglio continues Latin iūlius, the month named after Julius Caesar.^[7][8] Its unexpected initial /l/ is explained by assimilation of the first consonant to the /l/ inside the word.^[7][8]

Earliest recorded meaning

Nocentini, GRADIT and Zingarelli date the word to before 1320.^[8][2][4] DELI's first record is the Italian translation of Pietro de' Crescenzi's treatise on agriculture, about 1350, where it describes fruit, especially grapes, that ripen in July.^[7] The Tommaseo dictionary quotes that text listing among the white grapes moscadelle, e lugliatiche, le quali ottime son da mangiare (“muscat grapes and July grapes, which are excellent to eat”).^[9]

Semantic evolution

The word has kept its single agricultural sense: it is said of fruit, and above all of grape varieties, that ripen in July.^[3][6][4][5] The Tommaseo dictionary noted that uva lugliola was the more common name in the 19th century.^[9]

Other names for early grapes were formed from the same month: lugliese and lugliola came first, and luglienga, a white table grape that ripens early, is recorded from 1898–1903.^[7] GRADIT treats lugliatico as a synonym of lugliengo.^[2]

Timeline

• Before 1320 – Lugliatico is first recorded.^[8][2]
• About 1350 – The Italian translation of Pietro de' Crescenzi uses it of grapes that ripen in July.^[7]
• 1898–1903 – Luglienga, a related name for an early grape, is recorded.^[7]

Meanings

Adjective

1. (agriculture) Of fruit, especially of grape varieties: that ripens in July: Nel nostro orto c'è una vite lugliatica.^{[3][6][4][10]}

Related words

• luglio
• lugliengo
• aleatico
• Latin Iulius

References

1. ^ a b c Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org
2. ^ a b c d De Mauro, Tullio (ed.) (2003), Grande dizionario italiano dell'uso, CD-ROM version 2.0, Torino: UTET
3. ^ a b c Devoto, Giacomo; Oli, Gian Carlo; Serianni, Luca; Trifone, Maurizio (2026), Nuovo Devoto–Oli: il vocabolario dell'italiano contemporaneo, digital ed., Milano: Le Monnier
4. ^ a b c d Zingarelli, Nicola (2009), Lo Zingarelli 2010: vocabolario della lingua italiana, Bologna: Zanichelli
5. ^ a b c Duro, Aldo (ed.) (1986–1994), Vocabolario della lingua italiana, Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana; online ed. treccani.it/vocabolario (2008 copy)
6. ^ a b c Sabatini, Francesco; Coletti, Vittorio; Manfredini, Manuela (2026), Dizionario italiano Sabatini Coletti, digital ed., Milano: Sansoni / Rizzoli Larousse
7. ^ a b c d e f g Cortelazzo, Manlio; Zolli, Paolo (1999), Dizionario etimologico della lingua italiana, 2nd ed. by Manlio Cortelazzo and Michele A. Cortelazzo, Bologna: Zanichelli
8. ^ a b c d e Nocentini, Alberto; Parenti, Alessandro (2010), l'Etimologico: vocabolario della lingua italiana, Firenze: Le Monnier
9. ^ a b Tommaseo, Niccolò; Bellini, Bernardo (1861–1879), Dizionario della lingua italiana, 4 vols., Torino: UTET
10. ^ Gabrielli, Aldo (2020), Grande dizionario italiano, digital ed., Milano: Hoepli