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cervus

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Duo cervī ― Two stags

Alternative forms

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Etymology

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    Inherited from Proto-Italic *kerwos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂wós, from *ḱerh₂- (“horn”) (whence English horn, hirn, Latin cornū (“horn”)) + *-wós (whence Latin -vus).

    Cognate with Welsh carw (“deer”), and Ancient Greek κεραός (keraós, “horned”). The first-syllable -e- was likely taken from the PIE root noun *ḱerh₂s (“horn”) (itself eventually lost in Latin), while the shift in meaning from “horned” to “deer” may be common Italo-Celtic.[1]

    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    cervus m (genitive cervī); second declension

    1. deer, stag
    2. (by extension) forked stakes
    3. (military) cheval de frise

    Declension

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    Second-declension noun.

    singular plural
    nominative cervus cervī
    genitive cervī cervōrum
    dative cervō cervīs
    accusative cervum cervōs
    ablative cervō cervīs
    vocative cerve cervī

    Derived terms

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    Descendants

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    References

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    1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008), Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 111

    Further reading

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