gurgustium

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From gurges (whirlpool, abyss)[1]

Noun[edit]

gurgustium n (genitive gurgustiī or gurgustī); second declension

  1. hut, hovel
  2. a hole-in-the-wall, dark and obscure place

Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun (neuter).

Case Singular Plural
Nominative gurgustium gurgustia
Genitive gurgustiī
gurgustī1
gurgustiōrum
Dative gurgustiō gurgustiīs
Accusative gurgustium gurgustia
Ablative gurgustiō gurgustiīs
Vocative gurgustium gurgustia

1Found in older Latin (until the Augustan Age).

References[edit]

  • gurgustium”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • gurgustium”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • gurgustium 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)
  • gurgustium in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
  • gurgustium in Ramminger, Johann (2016 July 16 (last accessed)) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016
  1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “kroeg”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute