opilio
English
Noun
opilio (plural opilios)
- The snow crab Chionoecetes opilio.
Esperanto
Etymology
From New Latin Opiliones, from Latin ōpiliō.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [opiˈlio]
- Rhymes: -io
- Hyphenation: o‧pi‧li‧o
Noun
opilio (accusative singular opilion, plural opilioj, accusative plural opiliojn)
- daddy longlegs, harvestman
Latin
Alternative forms
- ūpiliō
- ovīliō
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”) + Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to drive”).[1]
Noun
ōpiliō m (genitive ōpiliōnis); third declension
- shepherd
Declension
Third-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ōpiliō | ōpiliōnēs |
| Genitive | ōpiliōnis | ōpiliōnum |
| Dative | ōpiliōnī | ōpiliōnibus |
| Accusative | ōpiliōnem | ōpiliōnēs |
| Ablative | ōpiliōne | ōpiliōnibus |
| Vocative | ōpiliō | ōpiliōnēs |
References
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “ōpiliō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 429
Further reading
- “opilio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “opilio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- opilio 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)
- opilio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “opilio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers