longavo

Latin

Alternative forms

• longao, longabo
• longaon, longanon
• longavi (in the plural)

Etymology

From longus (“long”) and an uncertain (evidently also to the speakers) second element.

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /lonˈɡaː.u̯oː/, [ɫ̪ɔŋˈɡäːu̯oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /lonˈɡa.vo/, [loŋˈɡäːvo]

Noun

longāvō m (genitive longāvōnis); third declension

1. (cooking) a kind of sausage
2. (anatomy) the large intestine

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	longāvō	longāvōnēs
Genitive	longāvōnis	longāvōnum
Dative	longāvōnī	longāvōnibus
Accusative	longāvōnem	longāvōnēs
Ablative	longāvōne	longāvōnibus
Vocative	longāvō	longāvōnēs

References

• “longāvo” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present
• “longanon”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• longavo in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.