opilio

English

Noun

opilio (plural opilios)

1. The snow crab Chionoecetes opilio.

Esperanto

Etymology

From New Latin Opiliones, from Latin ōpiliō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /opiˈlio/
• Rhymes: -io
• Hyphenation: o‧pi‧li‧o

Noun

opilio (accusative singular opilion, plural opilioj, accusative plural opiliojn)

1. daddy longlegs, harvestman

Latin

Alternative forms

• ūpiliō
• ovīliō

Etymology

Ultimately equivalent to ovis (“sheep”) + *piliō (uncertain meaning: “herd”, “driver”?), the latter component perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *pelh₂- (“to drive”), but not entirely inherited. The variants likely point to either dialectal influence or borrowings from other Italic languages; ū- in ūpiliō in particular looks to be Osco-Umbrian. Could be derived from a Proto-Italic compound such as *owi-polos. See cognates at Proto-Indo-European *h₂ówis (“sheep”).

Noun

ōpiliō m (genitive ōpiliōnis); third declension

1. shepherd

Declension

Third-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	ōpiliō	ōpiliōnēs
genitive	ōpiliōnis	ōpiliōnum
dative	ōpiliōnī	ōpiliōnibus
accusative	ōpiliōnem	ōpiliōnēs
ablative	ōpiliōne	ōpiliōnibus
vocative	ōpiliō	ōpiliōnēs

Further reading

• “opilio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “opilio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "opilio", 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)
• opilio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “opilio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper’s Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers