cavannus
Latin
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Gaulish *cawannos, from Proto-Celtic *kuwannos (“owl”), probably imitative in origin.[1]
Noun
editcavannus m (genitive cavannī); second declension (Late Latin, Gaul)
- tawny owl
- mid-5th c., Eucherius of Lyon, Instructionum Libri Duo ad Salonium filium 2.9:
- Sunt qui ululas putent aves esse nocturnas, ab ululatu vocis quem efferunt, quas vulgo cavannos dicunt.
- There are those who think that [tawny] owls, popularly called cavanni, are nocturnal birds named from the cry that they produce.[2]
- Sunt qui ululas putent aves esse nocturnas, ab ululatu vocis quem efferunt, quas vulgo cavannos dicunt.
- 9th c., Unknown, Commenta Bernensia 8.55:
- Ululae: aves de ululatu dictae, cuius deminutivum est uluccus, sicut Itali dicunt; quam avem Galli cavannum nuncupant.
- Ululae: birds named from their cry, the diminutive of which [word] is uluccus, as the Italians say; this bird the Gauls name cavannus.[3]
- Ululae: aves de ululatu dictae, cuius deminutivum est uluccus, sicut Itali dicunt; quam avem Galli cavannum nuncupant.
Declension
editSecond-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cavannus | cavannī |
Genitive | cavannī | cavannōrum |
Dative | cavannō | cavannīs |
Accusative | cavannum | cavannōs |
Ablative | cavannō | cavannīs |
Vocative | cavanne | cavannī |
Descendants
edit- Old French: chavan
- Old Occitan: chavan, chauana
- Zarphatic Old French: javan
- French: chat-huant
References
edit- “cavannus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- cavannus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “kawanno-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 196
- ^ Adams, J. N. (2007) The regional diversification of Latin, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 251
- ^ Adams, J. N. (2007) The regional diversification of Latin, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 251