zabulus
Latin edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Via regular assibilation as also happened in Aeolic Ancient Greek ζάβολος (zábolos).
Pronunciation edit
- (Classical) IPA(key): /ˈza.bu.lus/, [ˈd̪͡z̪äbʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈd͡za.bu.lus/, [ˈd̪͡z̪äːbulus]
- Note: the first vowel of this word is phonemically short, as in the original Ancient Greek.
Noun edit
zabulus m (genitive zabulī); second declension
- Alternative spelling of diabolus.
Declension edit
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | zabulus | zabulī |
| Genitive | zabulī | zabulōrum |
| Dative | zabulō | zabulīs |
| Accusative | zabulum | zabulōs |
| Ablative | zabulō | zabulīs |
| Vocative | zabule | zabulī |
Further reading edit
- “Zābŭlus or Zābŏlus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- ZABULUS 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)
- zābŏlus ou zābŭlus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.: “1,700/1”
- Niermeyer, Jan Frederik (1976) “zabolus”, in Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus, Leiden, Boston: E. J. Brill, page 1,138/1