aduncus

Latin

Etymology

From ad + uncus (“a hook; hooked”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /aˈdun.kus/, [äˈd̪ʊŋkʊs̠]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /aˈdun.kus/, [äˈd̪uŋkus]

Adjective

aduncus (feminine adunca, neuter aduncum); first/second-declension adjective

1. hooked, bent, curved
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.195–196:

     sī quaeritis astra tunc oritur magnī praepes adunca Iovis.

     If you all are looking for stars, from then on rises the swift hooked [bird] of mighty Jupiter.
     (See: Aquila (constellation); Jupiter (mythology); Eagle: a bird of prey with a large hooked beak.)

Declension

First/second-declension adjective.

Number	Singular				Plural
Case / Gender	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter		Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	aduncus	adunca	aduncum		aduncī	aduncae	adunca
Genitive	aduncī	aduncae	aduncī		aduncōrum	aduncārum	aduncōrum
Dative	aduncō		aduncō		aduncīs
Accusative	aduncum	aduncam	aduncum		aduncōs	aduncās	adunca
Ablative	aduncō	aduncā	aduncō		aduncīs
Vocative	adunce	adunca	aduncum		aduncī	aduncae	adunca

Derived terms

• aduncitās

Descendants

• Aromanian: adãncu
• Corsican: aonco
• → English: adunc
• → Italian: adunco
• → Portuguese: adunco
• Romanian: adânc
• → Spanish: adunco

References

• “aduncus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “aduncus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aduncus 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)
• aduncus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.