arrugia
Latin
editEtymology
editUnknown.[1] Lewis and Short suggest that it is ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewk-, making it cognate with runcō and Ancient Greek ὀρύσσω (orússō). Adams suggests it could be of Punic origin.[2]
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /arˈru.ɡi.a/, [ärˈrʊɡiä]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /arˈru.d͡ʒi.a/, [ärˈruːd͡ʒiä]
Noun
editarrugia f (genitive arrugiae); first declension
- A shaft and pit in a goldmine
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.70:
- cuniculis per magna spatia actis cavantur montes lucernarum ad lumina; eadem mensura vigiliarum est, multisque mensibus non cernitur dies. arrugias id genus vocant.
- c. 77 CE – 79 CE, Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 33.77:
- aurum arrugia quaesitum non coquitur, sed statim suum est.
Declension
editFirst-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | arrugia | arrugiae |
Genitive | arrugiae | arrugiārum |
Dative | arrugiae | arrugiīs |
Accusative | arrugiam | arrugiās |
Ablative | arrugiā | arrugiīs |
Vocative | arrugia | arrugiae |
Descendants
editReferences
edit- ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 33
- ^ J. N. Adams (2007 December 13) The Regional Diversification of Latin 200 BC - AD 600, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 545
Further reading
edit- “arrugia”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- arrugia in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.