ingluvies
English
Etymology
Latin
Noun
ingluvies
- (anatomy) The crop, or craw, of birds.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 ingluvies in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Latin
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel- (“throat”)[1]. Compare Latin gula (“throat”), gluttiō (“I gulp down”), Russian глотка (glotka, “throat”) and Persian گلو (“throat”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /inˈɡlu.wi.eːs/, [ɪŋˈɡɫʊ.wi.eːs]
Noun
ingluviēs f (genitive ingluviēī); fifth declension
- (anatomy) the crop of birds
- gluttony, voraciousness
Inflection
Fifth declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ingluviēs | ingluviēs |
| Genitive | ingluviēī | ingluviērum |
| Dative | ingluviēī | ingluviēbus |
| Accusative | ingluviem | ingluviēs |
| Ablative | ingluviē | ingluviēbus |
| Vocative | ingluviēs | ingluviēs |
Descendants
- English: ingluvies
- Spanish: ingluvie
References
- ingluvies in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ingluvies in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
- Pokorny, Julius (1959), “gel-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume II, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 364-365