Talk:roncus

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roncus

Created by an anon as a Latin noun, I do not find it listed in any dictionary of Classical, Late, or Medieval Latin. There is an entry in Niedermeyer that suggests there might be a word roncus in Latin, but no quotation for that word is given, nor a definition, in Niedermeyer. --EncycloPetey 04:08, 25 July 2011 (UTC)

Perhaps this [1] is where the anon found this? From googlebooks I could only find [2] and [3] and I don't know how relevant these are. Caladon 14:08, 4 August 2011 (UTC)

roncus is used by Apuleius in The Metamorphoses/The Golden Ass in book 1 (1.9, the part where Socrates talks about everything Meroe can do). I added the quotation to the page as well as a translation I found here, for lack of a better online translation. CeNobiteElf 11:52, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Also, looking for alternative spellings of the word brings up this w:False scad#Taxonomy and naming (not really relevant, but mentions the rhonchus and it's meaning), rhonchus and lastly Oxford English Dictionary states in the etymological information of rhonchus that it comes from "classical Latin rhonchus (also ronchus (2nd cent. a.d.))" and then later mentions Byzantine Greek word ῥόγχος and the Ancient Greek word ῥέγχος (also ῥέκχος). So roncus is probably just another spelling variant. CeNobiteElf 17:41, 19 August 2011 (UTC)

Passed. Needs only the one cite it has, 'cause it's a (mostly) dead language — at least, that's my understanding. - -sche (discuss) 22:01, 2 March 2012 (UTC)