vitulus
Latin
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Italic *wetelos, from Proto-Indo-European *wet- (“year”), same source as Ancient Greek ἔταλον (étalon), Albanian viç, English wether, Scots weddir, woddir, wadder (“wether”), Dutch weder, weer (“wether”), German Widder (“wether, ram”), Swedish vädur (“wether, ram”), Icelandic veður (“wether, ram”). See also Ancient Greek Ῑ̓ταλός (Ītalós).
Pronunciation
edit- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈu̯i.tu.lus/, [ˈu̯ɪt̪ʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈvi.tu.lus/, [ˈviːt̪ulus]
Noun
editvitulus m (genitive vitulī); second declension
- a bull calf
- Synonym: bovulus (Medieval Latin)
Declension
editSecond-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | vitulus | vitulī |
Genitive | vitulī | vitulōrum |
Dative | vitulō | vitulīs |
Accusative | vitulum | vitulōs |
Ablative | vitulō | vitulīs |
Vocative | vitule | vitulī |
Derived terms
edit- vitellus
- vitulus marīnus (“sea calf, seal”)
Related terms
editDescendants
edit(via VL. *vituleus):
Borrowings:
References
edit- “vitulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “vitulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- vitulus 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)
- vitulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “vitulus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray
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- Latin masculine nouns in the second declension
- Latin masculine nouns
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