gomphus

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek γόμφος (gómphos, “peg, nail”).

Noun

gomphus m (genitive gomphī); second declension

1. nail, dowel, peg

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	gomphus	gomphī
Genitive	gomphī	gomphōrum
Dative	gomphō	gomphīs
Accusative	gomphum	gomphōs
Ablative	gomphō	gomphīs
Vocative	gomphe	gomphī

Descendants

• Galician: golfón
• Old French: gonz, gons, gond
  • French: gond
  • Spanish: gozne, gonce
  • Portuguese: gonzo
  • Galician: gonzo
• Portuguese: gonfo-

References

• “gomphus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• gomphus 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)
• “gomphus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers