lurco
See also: Lurco
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlur.koː/, [ˈɫ̪ʊrkoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlur.ko/, [ˈlurko]
Etymology 1 edit
Unknown, a word avoided by the authors as vulgar. Probably imitative. Compare Middle High German slurken (“to swallow”), Arabic لَقِمَ (laqima, “to swallow”).
Verb edit
lurcō (present infinitive lurcāre, perfect active lurcāvī, supine lurcātum); first conjugation
Conjugation edit
Derived terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
From lurcō, lurcāre + -ō, -ōn- (noun-forming suffix).
Noun edit
lurcō m (genitive lurcōnis); third declension
Declension edit
Third-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | lurcō | lurcōnēs |
Genitive | lurcōnis | lurcōnum |
Dative | lurcōnī | lurcōnibus |
Accusative | lurcōnem | lurcōnēs |
Ablative | lurcōne | lurcōnibus |
Vocative | lurcō | lurcōnēs |
Synonyms edit
- (glutton): cataphagās, comedō, dēgulātor, edō, gāneō, glūtō, gluttō, gulō, gumia, helluō, mandō, mandūcō, mandūcus, phagō, polyphagus
References edit
- Ernout, Alfred; Meillet, Antoine (1985), “lurco”, in Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue latine: histoire des mots (in French), with additions and corrections of Jacques André, 4th edition, Paris: Klincksieck, published 2001, page 371
- “lurcō, v.”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “lurcō, n.”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- lurco in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
- “lurco”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers