capreolus

See also: Capreolus

Latin

Alternative forms

• capreola (Late Latin)

Etymology

From caprea (“roe”) +‎ -olus.

Noun

capreolus m (genitive capreolī); second declension

1. a roe deer, roebuck

   Bambi capreolus fuit.

   Bambi was a roe deer.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

	singular	plural
nominative	capreolus	capreolī
genitive	capreolī	capreolōrum
dative	capreolō	capreolīs
accusative	capreolum	capreolōs
ablative	capreolō	capreolīs
vocative	capreole	capreolī

Descendants

• Balkan Romance:
  • Aromanian: cãprior, cãprioarã
  • Romanian: căprior, căprioară
• Italo-Romance:
  • Italian: capreolo, capriolo, cavriolo, capriola
  • Sicilian: crapiolu
• Northern Italian:
  • Emilian: cavariôl
  • Friulian: cjavrûl
  • Ladin: capriol
  • Piedmontese: cravieul
  • Romansh: chavriel
  • Venetan: caoriól, cavriól, cavriòło
• Gallo-Romance:
  • Aragonese: cabirol
  • Catalan: cabirol
  • Old French: chevroil, chevrueil, kevruel
    • French: chevreuil
      • → English: chevreuil
    • Norman: quevreul, quevreur
    • → Sicilian: ciavureḍḍu
  • Occitan: cabiròl, cabròl
• Insular Romance:
  • Sardinian: crabiolu, crabolu
• Borrowings:
  • → Albanian: kapruall, kaprolli
  • → English: capreolate
  • → Translingual: Capreolus

References

• “capreolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “capreolus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• “capreolus”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• “capreolus”, in William Smith, editor (1848), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, London: John Murray