hamus
Latin
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hāmus
Etymology
Of unknown origin. Possibly related to Proto-Germanic *hamô (“collar, harness, fishnet”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈhaː.mus/, [ˈhäːmʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈa.mus/, [ˈäːmus]
Noun
hāmus m (genitive hāmī); second declension
- A hook
- A fishhook
- The barb of an arrow
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | hāmus | hāmī |
Genitive | hāmī | hāmōrum |
Dative | hāmō | hāmīs |
Accusative | hāmum | hāmōs |
Ablative | hāmō | hāmīs |
Vocative | hāme | hāmī |
Synonyms
- (hook): uncīnus
Derived terms
- adhāmō
- hāmātus
- hāmiformis
- hāmiōta
Descendants
- Catalan: ham
- Dalmatian: jam
- French: hameçon (from diminutive form)
- Friulian: amp
- Galician: anzol, amocelo (from diminutive forms)
- Italian: amo
- Portuguese: anzol (from diminutive form)
- Sardinian (Campidanese): amu
- Sicilian: amu
- Spanish: hamo, anzuelo (from diminutive form)
References
- “hamus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “hamus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hamus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
- hamus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “hamus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 279
- Priebsch, R., Collinson, W. E. (1938). The German Language. United States: Macmillan, p. 43