culus
See also: -culus
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *kuH-l-, zero-grade without s-mobile form of *(s)kewH- (“to cover”). Cognates include Old Irish cúl (“bottom”), Lithuanian kẽvalas (“skin, cover”) and indirectly Old English hȳd (English hide). Related to obscūrus (“dark, obscure”) and cutis (“hide”).
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): /ˈkuː.lus/, [ˈkuːɫ̪ʊs̠]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /ˈku.lus/, [ˈkuːlus]
Noun
cūlus m (genitive cūlī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
Case | Singular | Plural |
---|---|---|
Nominative | cūlus | cūlī |
Genitive | cūlī | cūlōrum |
Dative | cūlō | cūlīs |
Accusative | cūlum | cūlōs |
Ablative | cūlō | cūlīs |
Vocative | cūle | cūlī |
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “culus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “culus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- culus 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)
- culus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
Somali
Adjective
culus
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