solifuga

Latin

Alternative forms

• sālpūga
• sālpunga
• sōlipugna
• sōlipuga

Etymology

Folk-etymologically from sālpūga, by which etymology the word is to be analyzed as sōl (“sun”) +‎ fugiō (“I flee”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /soːˈli.fu.ɡa/, [s̠oːˈlʲɪfʊɡä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /soˈli.fu.ɡa/, [soˈliːfuɡä]

Noun

sōlifuga f (genitive sōlifugae); first declension

1. (Late Latin) solifuge, camel spider

Declension

First-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sōlifuga	sōlifugae
Genitive	sōlifugae	sōlifugārum
Dative	sōlifugae	sōlifugīs
Accusative	sōlifugam	sōlifugās
Ablative	sōlifugā	sōlifugīs
Vocative	sōlifuga	sōlifugae

Descendants

• → English: solifuge
• → Spanish: solífugo (via sōlifugus)
• → Translingual: Solifugae

References

• solifuga in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “solifuga”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• solifuga in Georges, Karl Ernst, Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918) Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 2, Hahnsche Buchhandlung
• Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1954) “sālpūga”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume II, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 470