crabro

See also: Crabro

Latin

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Italic *krāzrō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱerh₂-. Cognate with Old High German hornaz, hornuz, horniz (“hornet”), Old English hurnitu, hyrnetu (“hornet”). More at hornet. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ˈkraː.broː/, [ˈkräːbroː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkra.bro/, [ˈkräːbro]

Noun

crābrō m (genitive crābrōnis); third declension

1. hornet
   • 8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 3.753–754:

     mīlia crābrōnum coeunt et vertice nūdō
     spīculā dēfīgunt ōraque sīma notant.

     Thousands of hornets unite and thrust their stings into the top of his bald head and mark his snub-nosed face.
     (When Silenus goes looking for honey he is attacked by hornets.)

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	crābrō	crābrōnēs
Genitive	crābrōnis	crābrōnum
Dative	crābrōnī	crābrōnibus
Accusative	crābrōnem	crābrōnēs
Ablative	crābrōne	crābrōnibus
Vocative	crābrō	crābrōnēs

Descendants

Most descendants via crābrōnem (accusative).

• → Esperanto: krabro
• Italian: calabrone
• Lombard: gravalòn
• Venetian: graón, gravarón, graùgn
• West Iberian
  • Portuguese: cambrão
  • Spanish: cambrón
• → Portuguese: crabro
• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *crabrus
  • Old Spanish: caparra
    • Spanish: garrapata

References

• “crabro”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “crabro”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• crabro in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.