botulus
See also: Botulus
Latin
Etymology
Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷet- (“swelling”), borrowed through a Osco-Umbrian language; compare Proto-Germanic *kweþuz (“belly, womb”) and German Kuttel (“chitterlings”).[1]
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈbo.tu.lus/, [ˈbɔt̪ʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈbo.tu.lus/, [ˈbɔːt̪ulus]
Noun
botulus m (genitive botulī); second declension
- sausage, black pudding
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | botulus | botulī |
| Genitive | botulī | botulōrum |
| Dative | botulō | botulīs |
| Accusative | botulum | botulōs |
| Ablative | botulō | botulīs |
| Vocative | botule | botulī |
Derived terms
- botellus
- botulīnus
Descendants
- Catalan: bull
- ⇒ German: Botulin
- → English: botulin
- Italian: botulino
- ⇒ German: Botulismus
- → Catalan: botulisme
- → English: botulism
- → French: botulisme
- → Italian: botulismo
- → Spanish: botulismo
References
- “botulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- botulus 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)
- botulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “botulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- Walde, Alois (1910), “botulus”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 2nd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 95