glutto

Latin

Alternative forms

Etymology

From an earlier stem *glut-, perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *gʷlew-, extension from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (throat),[1] and related to gula (throat)), Proto-Slavic *glъtati (to swallow, devour), Russian глотка (glotka, throat). De Vaan suspects that the root may be onomatopoeic, with original form *gul-, *glu-,[2] and may have been innovated separately in the branches of Indo-European that it appears in, which would technically render the cognacy of the terms invalid (albeit motivated by similar sound-symbolism).[3]

Pronunciation

Noun

gluttō m (genitive gluttōnis); third declension

  1. glutton, gourmand

Declension

Third-declension noun.

singular plural
nominative gluttō gluttōnēs
genitive gluttōnis gluttōnum
dative gluttōnī gluttōnibus
accusative gluttōnem gluttōnēs
ablative gluttōne gluttōnibus
vocative gluttō gluttōnēs

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: glutton
  • French: glouton
  • Italian: ghiotto, ghiottone
  • Portuguese: glutão
  • Romanian: gluton
  • Spanish: glotón
  • Welsh: glwth

References

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959), “gel- und gᵘ̯el 'verschlingen”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 365:(paragraph 7) > im Guttural zweideutig > line 7 > glūt(t)ō, -ōnis
  2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “gluttō, -nis”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 267
  3. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “gula”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 275