vidulus

Latin

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.) Perhaps related to Sanskrit वेद (vedá, “a tuft or bunch of strong grass”)^[1]

Pronunciation

(Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈwiː.dʊ.ɫʊs]
(modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈviː.du.lus]

Noun

vīdulus m (genitive vīdulī); second declension

(Plautine) a suitcase, portmanteau
- c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Menaechmi 2.2.14:
  Eccum in vidulo salvom fero.
  (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	vīdulus	vīdulī
genitive	vīdulī	vīdulōrum
dative	vīdulō	vīdulīs
accusative	vīdulum	vīdulōs
ablative	vīdulō	vīdulīs
vocative	vīdule	vīdulī

Derived terms

vīdulārius

References

“vidulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
“vidulus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

^ Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954), “vīdulus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 785

[1] Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954), “vīdulus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 785

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