cartilago
See also: cartílago
Latin
editEtymology
editPerhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kert- (“to weave, twist together”), the same source as Latin crātis (“wickerwork”) and Ancient Greek κροτώνη (krotṓnē, “excrescence on a tree”).[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kar.tiˈlaː.ɡoː/, [kärt̪ɪˈɫ̪äːɡoː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kar.tiˈla.ɡo/, [kärt̪iˈläːɡo]
Noun
editcartilāgō f (genitive cartilāginis); third declension
Declension
editThird-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cartilāgō | cartilāginēs |
Genitive | cartilāginis | cartilāginum |
Dative | cartilāginī | cartilāginibus |
Accusative | cartilāginem | cartilāginēs |
Ablative | cartilāgine | cartilāginibus |
Vocative | cartilāgō | cartilāginēs |
Derived terms
edit- cartilāgineus (adjective)
- cartilāginōsus (adjective)
Descendants
edit→ French: cartilage
- → English: cartilage
→ Spanish: cartílago
References
edit- “cartilago”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cartilago 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)
- cartilago in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Walde, Alois, Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938) “cartilago”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), 3rd edition, volume 1, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 174