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).

Noun

cuniculus (plural cuniculi)

  1. a burrow or low underground passage
  2. a burrow in the skin made by a mite

Latin

Alternative forms

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

  1. a rabbit
  2. a rabbit burrow
  3. 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.

Declension

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  • cunīculārium

Descendants

  • Padanian:
  • Gallo-Romance:
  • Ibero-Romance:
    • Aragonese: coniello
    • Old Leonese: [Term?]
      • Asturian: coneyu
      • Leonese: cuneyu
      • Mirandese: coneilho
    • Old Galician-Portuguese: cõelho (see there for further descendants)
    • Old Spanish: conejo
      • Ladino: konejo
      • Spanish: conejo (see there for further descendants)
Borrowings
  • Ancient Greek: κύνικλος (kúniklos), κούνικλος (koúniklos), κόνικλος (kóniklos)
  • Arabic:
    • Moroccan Arabic: قنية (qniyya), قلينة (qlayna)
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  • Esperanto: kuniklo
  • Italian: cunicolo
  • Middle High German: küniklīn, künglīn (partial calque)
  • Old Breton: [Term?]
    • Middle Breton: conicl, conniffl
  • Portuguese: cunículo

References

  1. 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)
  • 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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