lumbricus
See also: Lumbricus
Latin
Etymology
Possibly related to lumbus (“loins”) with a similar suffix to formīca (“ant”) or umbilīcus (“navel”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [ɫʊmˈbriː.kʊs]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [lumˈbriː.kus]
Noun
lumbrīcus m (genitive lumbrīcī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | lumbrīcus | lumbrīcī |
| genitive | lumbrīcī | lumbrīcōrum |
| dative | lumbrīcō | lumbrīcīs |
| accusative | lumbrīcum | lumbrīcōs |
| ablative | lumbrīcō | lumbrīcīs |
| vocative | lumbrīce | lumbrīcī |
Descendants
- Asturian: llombriga
- Aromanian: lãmbric, limbric, lumburic
- Catalan: llombric
- Emilian: lunbrîṡ, lunbrîg
- Esperanto: lumbriko
- French: lombric
- Galician: lombriga
- Ido: lombriko
- Italian: lombrico
- Portuguese: lombriga
- Romanian: limbric
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *lumbrix
- Old Leonese:
- Asturian: llombriza
- Mirandese: lhombriç
- Spanish: lombriz
- Old Leonese:
- Translingual: Lumbricus
References
- “lumbricus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lumbricus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “lumbrīcus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 351-352