labina

From Latin lābēs.

lābīna f (genitive lābīnae); first declension

1. a slippery place
2. landslide

First declension.

• (Vulgar Latin) labanca

• Franco-Provençal: lavino
• Italian: slavina
• → Old High German: lowin, lewina
  • Middle High German: lowin, *lawene
    • Alemannic German: Lauwin, Laui
      • → German: Lawine (see there for further descendants)
    • Bavarian: Laun, Lan
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *labanca
  • Franco-Provençal: lavençhe
    • ⇒ Franco-Provençal: avalençhe (blended with aval (“downhill”))
      • → French: avalanche
        • → English: avalanche
        • → Galician: avalancha
        • → Portuguese: avalanche
        • → Romanian: avalanșă
        • → Spanish: avalancha
      • → Occitan: avalanca
  • Italian: valanga
  • Old Occitan: [Term?]
    • Occitan: lavanca

• labina in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• labina in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)