cuniclus

Latin Edit

From cuniculus via syncope of the intertonic unstressed /ĭ/.

cunīclus m (genitive cunīclī); second declension

Padanian:
- Emilian: cunili, cunij, cunej, cunì ⇒ cunin, cunen
- Friulian: cunin
- Lombard: conì, conili, conécc, cómic
- Piedmontese: cunij, cunì ⇒ conin
- Romansch: cunigl, cunegl
- Venetian: cunicio, conicio, cunic, conéjo, cunel, cunin, cunel
Northern Gallo-Romance:
- Old French: connil (see there for further descendants)
Southern Gallo-Romance:
- Catalan: conill
  - → Sardinian: conígliu, coníliu, conillu, cunidhu, cunixu
- Occitan: conilh
  - → Italo-Romance: (alternatively via French or Piedmontese)
    - Corsican: cunigliu, cunigliulu
    - Italian: coniglio
    - Sicilian: cunigghiu, cunigliu
Ibero-Romance:
- Aragonese: coniello
- Old Leonese:
  - Asturian: coneyu
  - Leonese: cuneyu
  - Mirandese: coneilho
- Old Galician-Portuguese: cõelho, coelho
  - Fala: cuellu
  - Galician: coello, coenllo
  - Portuguese: coelho (see there for further descendants)
- Old Spanish: conejo
  - Ladino: konejo
  - Spanish: conejo (see there for further descendants)

“cunīculus” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present