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Updated: May 26, 2025
The French 'rossignol, a nightingale, is undoubtedly the Latin 'lusciniola, the diminutive of 'luscinia, with the alteration, so frequent in the Romance languages, of the commencing 'l' into 'r. Whatever may be the etymology of 'luscinia, it is plain that for Frenchmen in general the word would no longer suggest any meaning at all, hardly even for French scholars, after the serious transformations which it had undergone; while yet, at the same time, in the exquisitely musical 'rossignol, and still more perhaps in the Italian 'usignuolo, there is an evident intention and endeavour to express something of the music of the bird's song in the liquid melody of the imitative name which it bears; and thus to put a new soul into the word, in lieu of that other which had escaped.
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