funambulo
See also: funámbulo and funâmbulo
English
Noun
funambulo (plural funambulos or funambuloes)
- (obsolete) A funambulist; a tightrope walker.
- 1605, Francis Bacon, “(please specify |book=1 or 2)”, in The Tvvoo Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the Proficience and Aduancement of Learning, Diuine and Humane, London: […] [Thomas Purfoot and Thomas Creede] for Henrie Tomes, […], OCLC 932932554:
- […] the tricks of tumblers, funambuloes, baladines […]
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for funambulo in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Latin
Noun
fūnambulō
- dative/ablative singular of fūnambulus
References
- funambulo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- funambulo in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700, pre-publication website, 2005-2016