gurgulio

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to swallow”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /ɡurˈɡu.li.oː/, [ɡʊrˈɡʊlʲioː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ɡurˈɡu.li.o/, [ɡurˈɡuːlio]

Noun

gurguliō f (genitive gurguliōnis); third declension

1. windpipe, gullet
2. Alternative form of curculio

Declension

Third-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	gurguliō	gurguliōnēs
Genitive	gurguliōnis	gurguliōnum
Dative	gurguliōnī	gurguliōnibus
Accusative	gurguliōnem	gurguliōnēs
Ablative	gurguliōne	gurguliōnibus
Vocative	gurguliō	gurguliōnēs

Descendants

• Galician: gurgullón, gurgullo
• Italian: gorgoglione
• Portuguese: gorgulho
• Spanish: gorgojo
• → Proto-West Germanic: *gurgulā (see there for further descendants)

References

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