naulum

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ναῦλος (naûlos).

Noun

naulum n (genitive naulī); second declension (Late Latin)

1. fare
   • c. 100 CE – c. 130 CE, Juvenal, Satires 8.97:

     Furor est post omnia perdere naulum.

     It were madness to waste the fare after all that.

   • 405 CE, Jerome, Vulgate Ionae.1.3:

     Et surrēxit Iōnas, ut fugeret in Tharsis a facie Domini, et descendit in Joppen : et invenit navem euntem in Tharsis, et dedit naulum ejus, et descendit in eam ut iret cum eis in Tharsis a facie Domini.

Declension

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	naulum	naula
Genitive	naulī	naulōrum
Dative	naulō	naulīs
Accusative	naulum	naula
Ablative	naulō	naulīs
Vocative	naulum	naula

Descendants

• ⇒ Vulgar Latin: *naulium
  • Old Catalan: noli, nolit
    • Catalan: noli, nòlit
      • → Occitan: noli, nolit
        • → Middle French: nolit, noly, nolis, naulis
          • French: nolis
• ⇒ Medieval Latin: naulāticum
  • → Old French: naulage
    • Middle French: naulage
      • French: naulage
        • → English: naulage
    • → Medieval Latin: naulagium
• → Italian: naulo, nolo
• → Portuguese: naulo
• → Venetian: naulo, navolo, nolo

References

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