cuniculus
See also: Cuniculus
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).
Latin
Etymology
Perhaps some Iberian or Celtiberian word + the Latin diminutive -ulus. Compare Basque untxi (“rabbit”), Mozarabic conchair (“greyhound”). Attested from Varro onward.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kuˈniː.ku.lus/, [kʊˈniːkʊɫ̪ʊs̠] or IPA(key): /kuˈni.ku.lus/, [kʊˈnɪkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kuˈni.ku.lus/, [kuˈniːkulus]
- Note: short /i/ attested in Martial.[1]
Noun
cunī̆culus m (genitive cunī̆culī); second declension
- a rabbit
- a rabbit burrow
- a mine, underground tunnel or gallery
- 2015, Tuomo Pekkanen, Nuntii Latini 7.8.2015:https://areena.yle.fi/1-2864830
- Greges migratorum, qui diversis viis ex Africa vel Asia in Europam venerunt, in proximitatem urbis Caleti (Calais) convenerunt, unde brevissima est in Britanniam per cuniculum traiectio.
- Groups of migrants, coming into Europe by various routes from Africa and Asia, came together near the city of Calais, where it is but a short passage to Britain through the tunnel.
- Greges migratorum, qui diversis viis ex Africa vel Asia in Europam venerunt, in proximitatem urbis Caleti (Calais) convenerunt, unde brevissima est in Britanniam per cuniculum traiectio.
Declension
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Related terms
- cunīculārium
Descendants
- Padanian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Borrowings
- → Ancient Greek: κύνικλος (kúniklos), κούνικλος (koúniklos), κόνικλος (kóniklos)
- ⇒ Greek: κονικλοτροφείο (koniklotrofeío)
- → Arabic:
- Moroccan Arabic: قنية (qniyya), قلينة (qlayna)
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- → Esperanto: kuniklo
- Ido: kuniklo
- → Italian: cunicolo
- → Middle High German: küniklīn, künglīn (partial calque)
- → Old Breton: [Term?]
- Middle Breton: conicl, conniffl
- Breton: konikl, konifl
- Middle Breton: conicl, conniffl
- → Portuguese: cunículo
References
- “cunīculus” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
- Joan Coromines; José A. Pascual (1984), “conejo”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), volume II (Ce–F), Madrid: Gredos, →ISBN, page 173
Further reading
- “cuniculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “cuniculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- cuniculus 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)
- cuniculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
- to make mines, subterraneous passages: cuniculos agere (B. G. 3. 21)
- to make mines, subterraneous passages: cuniculos agere (B. G. 3. 21)
- “cuniculus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “cuniculus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin
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