hamus

Latin hāmus (“hook, barb”).

hamus (plural hami)

1. (biology) A hook- or barb-like structure.

Of unknown origin. Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *hamô (“collar, harness, fishnet”).^[1] Traditionally compared to Ancient Greek χάβος (khábos, “muzzle, curved”), but De Vaan rejects the possibility of a loan due to the vowel length.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhaː.mʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈaː.mus]

hāmus m (genitive hāmī); second declension

1. A hook
2. A fishhook
3. The barb of an arrow

Second-declension noun.

• (hook): uncīnus

• adhāmō
• hāmātus
• hāmiformis
• hāmiōta

• “hamus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hamus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "hamus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “hamus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “hamus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 279