different between european vs valonia

Friulian

Adjective

european

1. European

Romanian

Etymology

From French européen. Analyzable as Europa +? -ean.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e.u.ro?pe?an/

Adjective

european m or n (feminine singular european?, masculine plural europeni, feminine and neuter plural europene)

1. European

Declension

Noun

european m (plural europeni, feminine equivalent european?)

1. European

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• valonia oak, velani, velani oak, valonea, valonea oak, vallonea, vallonea oak

Etymology

From the Venetian name Valona of the now Albanian city Vlorë around which it grows unlike in Italy; but an occasional acquaintance at first and one of the principal sources of tannin in the English-speaking world only in the late 19th century, largely imported from the Ottoman Empire, Smyrna being the main trading centre for it, whence to Trieste it passed the first time in 1842 to reach the Austro-Hungarian leather industry and becoming popular in the German Reich only by the 1880s.

Noun

valonia (plural valonias)

1. The European evergreen oak, Quercus macrolepis, now Quercus ithaburensis subsp. macrolepis, or Quercus aegilops.
2. The dried acorn cups of this tree, which are used to make a black dye, used in tanning.

See also

• dyer's oak, Aleppo oak (“Quercus infectoria”)
• black oak (“Quercus velutina”)

Anagrams

• Lavonia, novalia