ebulum
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown, but likely related to Old Prussian addle (“spruce, fir”), Latvian egle (“spruce, fir”), Lithuanian ẽglė (“spruce”), Proto-Slavic *ȅdlь (“spruce”) (from Proto-Balto-Slavic *edlis), potentially from Proto-Indo-European *h₁edʰ-l-.[1] Perhaps (though less likely) related to Gaulish odocos (“elder”), whence Late Latin odecus, odicus and Old High German attuh, attah (“dwarf-elder, danewort”) (modern German Attich), from the same root *h₁edʰ-;[2] however, Pokorny's derivation of this term from a root meaning “pointy” (stechend in the original German) is very unlikely.[3] In the absence of a solid Indo-European etymology, it may thus be a European substrate word.[4]
Noun
[edit]ebulum n (genitive ebulī); second declension
- The meaning of this term is uncertain. Possibilities include:
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun (neuter).
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | ebulum | ebula |
| Genitive | ebulī | ebulōrum |
| Dative | ebulō | ebulīs |
| Accusative | ebulum | ebula |
| Ablative | ebulō | ebulīs |
| Vocative | ebulum | ebula |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings:
- → Portuguese: ébulo
References
[edit]- Buchi, Éva, Schweickard, Wolfgang (2008–) “*/ˈɛβul-u/”, in Dictionnaire Étymologique Roman, Nancy: Analyse et Traitement Informatique de la Langue Française.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “ebulus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 185
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “*edh-lo-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 289
- ^ Genaust, Helmut (1996) “ébulus”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der botanischen Pflanzennamen (in German), 3rd edition, Basel: Birkhäuser Verlag, →ISBN, pages 220b–221a
- ^ Oettinger, Norbert (2003) “Neuerungen in Lexikon und Wortbildung des Nordwest-Indogermanischen”, in Alfred Bammesberger & Theo Vennemann, editors, Languages in Prehistoric Europe, Heidelberg: Winter, →ISBN, page 189
Further reading
[edit]- “ebulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “ebulum”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- ebulum 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)
- ebulum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.