furunculus
Latin edit
Etymology edit
From fūr (“a thief”) + -unculus (diminutive nominal suffix). The use of the ending -unculus, which more often appeared in diminutives of n-stem nouns, may be influenced by analogy with the word latrunculus (“highwayman, robber”), a diminutive with a similar meaning.[1] Alternatively (particularly in the sense "ferret"), could be from fūrō + -culus, i.e. a diminutive formed on an n-stem base fūrō, an alternative form of fūr.
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /fuːˈrun.ku.lus/, [fuːˈrʊŋkʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /fuˈrun.ku.lus/, [fuˈruŋkulus]
Noun edit
fūrunculus m (genitive fūrunculī); second declension
Inflection edit
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | fūrunculus | fūrunculī |
Genitive | fūrunculī | fūrunculōrum |
Dative | fūrunculō | fūrunculīs |
Accusative | fūrunculum | fūrunculōs |
Ablative | fūrunculō | fūrunculīs |
Vocative | fūruncule | fūrunculī |
Descendants edit
All having the sense of 'sore, boil, abscess'.
- Italo-Romance:
- North Italian:
- Gallo-Romance:
- Franco-Provençal:
- Oïl:
- Occitano-Romance:
- Ibero-Romance:
- Vulgar Latin:
- *fluruncus (see there for further descendants)
- *furuncellus (diminutive)
- Borrowings:
- Unsorted:
- Portuguese: frunco
References edit
- AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 685: “il foruncolo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
- ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France[1] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 1574: “furoncle” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “fŭrŭnculus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 3: D–F, page 912
Further reading edit
- “furunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “furunculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- furunculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette