lurdus
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain; often suggested to be derived from lūridus (“sallow, pale”),[1][2] perhaps influenced in meaning by Greek λορδός (lordós, “bent backward”),[3] or Frankish *lort (“crooked, lame, clumsy”), if not a full borrowing.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈlur.dus/, [ˈɫ̪ʊrd̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈlur.dus/, [ˈlurd̪us]
Adjective edit
lurdus (feminine lurda, neuter lurdum); first/second-declension adjective[4]
- (Late Latin) slow, heavy
- (Late Latin) clumsy, stupid
Declension edit
First/second-declension adjective.
| Number | Singular | Plural | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Case / Gender | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | |
| Nominative | lurdus | lurda | lurdum | lurdī | lurdae | lurda | |
| Genitive | lurdī | lurdae | lurdī | lurdōrum | lurdārum | lurdōrum | |
| Dative | lurdō | lurdō | lurdīs | ||||
| Accusative | lurdum | lurdam | lurdum | lurdōs | lurdās | lurda | |
| Ablative | lurdō | lurdā | lurdō | lurdīs | |||
| Vocative | lurde | lurda | lurdum | lurdī | lurdae | lurda | |
Descendants edit
- Old French: lort, lord, lourt, lourd
- >? Italian: lordo
- Old Occitan: lort
- >? Spanish: lerdo
- → Portuguese: lerdo
References edit
- ^ Greimas, A.J. (1969) “lort, lord”, in Dictionnaire de l'ancien francais jusq'uau milieu du XIVe siècle (in French), Paris: Larousse, page 373
- ^ Joan Coromines, José A. Pascual (1983–1991) “LERDO”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos, page 358
- ^ Pianigiani, Ottorino (1907) “lordo”, in Vocabolario etimologico della lingua italiana (in Italian), Rome: Albrighi & Segati
- ^ lurdus 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)