zinzala

• tentiala

Of imitative/onomatopoetic origin.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈzɪn.za.ɫa]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈd̪͡z̪in.d̪͡z̪a.la]

zinzala f (genitive zinzalae); first declension

1. (Late Latin, rustic) a type of gnat

First-declension noun.

• “zinzala”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• "zinzala", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “zinzala”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.