crabro
See also: Crabro
Latin
Etymology
Possibly from Proto-Italic *krāzrō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-. Cognate with Old High German hornaz, hornuz, horniz (“hornet”), Old English hurnitu, hyrnetu (“hornet”). More at hornet. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈkraː.broː/, [ˈkräːbroː]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈkra.bro/, [ˈkräːbro]
Noun
crābrō m (genitive crābrōnis); third declension
- hornet
- 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.753-754:
- mīlia crābrōnum coeunt et vertice nūdō
spīculā dēfīgunt ōraque sīma notant.- Thousands of hornets unite and thrust their stings into the top of his bald head and mark his snub-nosed face.
(When Silenus goes looking for honey he is attacked by hornets.)
- Thousands of hornets unite and thrust their stings into the top of his bald head and mark his snub-nosed face.
- mīlia crābrōnum coeunt et vertice nūdō
Declension
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | crābrō | crābrōnēs |
Genitive | crābrōnis | crābrōnum |
Dative | crābrōnī | crābrōnibus |
Accusative | crābrōnem | crābrōnēs |
Ablative | crābrōne | crābrōnibus |
Vocative | crābrō | crābrōnēs |
Descendants
Most descendants via crābrōnem (accusative).
- → Esperanto: krabro
- Italian: calabrone
- Lombard: gravalòn
- Venetian: graón, gravarón, graùgn
- West Iberian
- Portuguese: cambrão
- Spanish: cambrón
- → Portuguese: crabro
- ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *crabrus
- Old Spanish: caparra
- Spanish: garrapata
- Old Spanish: caparra
References
- “crabro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “crabro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- crabro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette