caduceus
See also: Caduceus
English edit
Etymology edit
Via Latin cādūceus, cādūceum, adaptation of Doric Ancient Greek καρύκειον (karúkeion, “herald’s wand or staff”). This and Attic Greek κηρύκειον (kērúkeion) are derived from κῆρυξ (kêrux, “herald, public messenger”). Related to κηρύσσω (kērússō, “I announce”).
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Noun edit
caduceus (plural caducei)
- The official wand carried by a herald in ancient Greece and Rome, specifically the one carried in mythology by Hermes, the messenger of the gods, usually represented with two snakes twined around it.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- Caduceus the rod of Mercury, / With which he wonts the Stygian realmes inuade […]
- A symbol (☤) representing a staff with two snakes wrapped around it, used to indicate merchants and messengers. It is also sometimes incorrectly substituted for the rod of Asclepius as a symbol of medicine.
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:caduceus.
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Latin edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kaːˈduː.ke.us/, [käːˈd̪uːkeʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kaˈdu.t͡ʃe.us/, [käˈd̪uːt͡ʃeus]
Noun edit
cādūceus m (genitive cādūceī); second declension
- Alternative form of cādūceum
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cādūceus | cādūceī |
Genitive | cādūceī | cādūceōrum |
Dative | cādūceō | cādūceīs |
Accusative | cādūceum | cādūceōs |
Ablative | cādūceō | cādūceīs |
Vocative | cādūcee | cādūceī |
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References edit
- “caduceus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “caduceus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “caduceus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin