asellus

See also: Asellus

Latin

Etymology

Etymology tree

Latin asinus

Proto-Indo-European *-lós

Proto-Indo-European *-elós

Proto-Italic *-elos

Latin -lus

Latin asellus

From asinus + -lus (diminutive suffix).

Noun

asellus m (genitive asellī); second declension

1. Small or young ass or donkey; diminutive of asinus
   • 8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 3.749:

     Utque piger pandī tergō residēbat asellī.

     And as he was sitting lazily upon the back of his sagging little donkey
     (See Silenus.)

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	asellus	asellī
genitive	asellī	asellōrum
dative	asellō	asellīs
accusative	asellum	asellōs
ablative	asellō	asellīs
vocative	aselle	asellī

Related terms

• asinus

Descendants

• Italian: asello, nasello
• → Gothic: 𐌰𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌿𐍃 (asilus)
  • → Proto-Slavic: *osьlъ (see there for further descendants)
• → Old Irish: asal (see there for further descendants)
• → Proto-West Germanic: *asil (see there for further descendants)
• → Translingual: Asellus

References

• “asellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “asellus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "asellus", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “asellus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “asellus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray