crocodilus
Appearance
See also: Crocodilus
Latin
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- corcodīlus (by metathesis)
- crocodillus (Late Latin)
- corcodīllus (Late Latin)
Etymology
[edit]From Ancient Greek κροκόδειλος (krokódeilos).
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /kro.koˈdiː.lus/, [krɔkɔˈd̪iːɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /kro.koˈdi.lus/, [krokoˈd̪iːlus]
Noun
[edit]crocodīlus m (genitive crocodīlī); second declension
Declension
[edit]Second-declension noun.
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | crocodīlus | crocodīlī |
genitive | crocodīlī | crocodīlōrum |
dative | crocodīlō | crocodīlīs |
accusative | crocodīlum | crocodīlōs |
ablative | crocodīlō | crocodīlīs |
vocative | crocodīle | crocodīlī |
Descendants
[edit]From a form with metathesis *coccodrīllus, and sometimes more later irregular shifts:
- Medieval Latin: cocodrillus
- Asturian: cocodrilu
- Catalan: cocodril
- Italian: coccodrillo
- → Maltese: kukkudrill
- Old French: cocodril
- Norman: crocodile
- → Middle English: cocodrill, cokadrill, cokedril
- English: crocodile
- → Maori: kokorotaera, karakotaera
- → Niuean: kirokotaili
- → Tokelauan: kolokotaila
- → Tongan: kalokataile
- → Welsh: crocodeil
- Scots: cocadrille, cokadraill
- English: crocodile
- Sicilian: cuncutrigghiu, cuncutriddu, cucutrigghiu
- Spanish: cocodrilo
- Borrowings
- → Albanian: krokodil
- → Basque: krokodilo
- → Breton: krokodil
- → Bulgarian: крокодил (krokodil)
- → Cornish: krokodil
- → Czech: krokodýl
- → Danish: krokodille
- → Estonian: krokodill
- → Faroese: krokodilla
- → Finnish: krokotiili
- → French: crocodile
- → Galician: crocodilo
- → German: Krokodil
- → Hungarian: krokodil (or directly from Latin)
- → Middle Russian: крокоди́лъ (krokodíl)
- Russian: крокоди́л (krokodíl), крокоди́лъ (krokodíl) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
- → Old Ruthenian: крокоди́лъ (krokodíl), крокоды́лъ (krokodýl), крокоды́ль (krokodýlʹ)
- Belarusian: кракадзі́л (krakadzíl)
- Carpathian Rusyn: крокоді́л (krokodíl)
- Ukrainian: крокоди́л (krokodýl)
- → Irish: crogall
- → Icelandic: krókódíll
- → Kyrgyz: крокодил (krokodil)
- → Latvian: krokodils
- → Lithuanian: krokodilas
- → Luxembourgish: Krokodil
- → Macedonian: крокодил (krokodil)
- → Middle Dutch: crocodil
- → Norwegian: krokodille
- → Occitan: crocodil
- → Polish: krokodyl
- → Portuguese: crocodilo
- → Scottish Gaelic: crogall
- → Serbo-Croatian: krokodil
- → Slovak: krokodíl
- → Swedish: krokodil
- → Slovene: krokodil
- → Tajik: крокодил (krokodil)
- → Turkmen: krokodil
- → West Frisian: krokodil
- → Yiddish: קראָקאָדיל (krokodil)
References
[edit]- “crocodilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “crocodilus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- crocodilus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.