vulturius

• volturius

Originally an adjective, from vultur / voltur +‎ -ius; most likely related to vello.

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [wʊɫˈtʊ.ri.ʊs]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [vulˈtuː.ri.us]

vulturius m (genitive vulturiī or vulturī); second declension

1. vulture

   Synonym: vultur

   • c. 200 BCE, Plautus, Mostellaria 3.2.145–147:

     Viden pictum, ubi ludificat cornix una volturios duos?
     — Non edepol video. — At ego video. Nam inter volturios duos
     cornix astat, ea volturios duo vicissim vellicat.

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   • 27 BCE – 25 BCE, Titus Livius, Ab Urbe Condita 27.23.3:

     [nuntiatum erat] Caere volturium volasse in aedem Iovis, […]

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2. (figurative) a rapacious person
   • c. 195 BCE, Plautus, Trinummus 1.2.64–65:

     tum autem sunt alii, qui te volturium vocant:
     hostisne an civis comedis, parvi pendere.

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   • 55 BCE, Cicero, In Pisonem 16:

     Appellatus est hic volturius illius provinciae, si dis placet, imperator.

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3. (dice games) Ellipsis of vulturius iactus: an unlucky throw
   • c. 190 BCE, Plautus, Curculio 2.3.78–80:

     Iacit volturios quattuor.
     Talos arripio, invoco almam meam nutricem Herculem,
     iacto basilicum; […]

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Second-declension noun.

¹Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

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