arundo

See also: Arundo

Latin

Alternative forms

• harundō

Etymology

Unknown. Probably from a substrate source, like Ancient Greek ὀρόντιον (oróntion) and ἄρον (áron, “cuckoopint, arum”).

Noun

arundō f (genitive arundinis); third declension

1. reed
2. fishing rod
3. shaft of an arrow

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	arundō	arundinēs
Genitive	arundinis	arundinum
Dative	arundinī	arundinibus
Accusative	arundinem	arundinēs
Ablative	arundine	arundinibus
Vocative	arundō	arundinēs

Descendants

• Translingual: Arundo

References

• arundo 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)
• “arundo”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers