cuniclus

Latin

Etymology

From cuniculus via syncope of the intertonic unstressed /ĭ/.

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kuˈniː.klus/, [kʊˈniːkɫ̪ʊs̠]

Noun

cunīclus m (genitive cunīclī); second declension

1. (Late Latin or Vulgar Latin) Syncopic form of cunīculus.

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	cunīclus	cunīclī
Genitive	cunīclī	cunīclōrum
Dative	cunīclō	cunīclīs
Accusative	cunīclum	cunīclōs
Ablative	cunīclō	cunīclīs
Vocative	cunīcle	cunīclī

Descendants

Inherited

• Padanian:
  • Emilian: cunili, cunij, cunej, cunì ⇒ cunin, cunen
  • Friulian: cunin
  • Lombard: conì, conili, conécc, cómic
  • Piedmontese: cunij, cunì ⇒ conin
  • Romansch: cunigl, cunegl
  • Venetian: cunicio, conicio, cunic, conéjo, cunel, cunin, cunel
• Northern Gallo-Romance:
  • Old French: connil (see there for further descendants)
• Southern Gallo-Romance:
  • Catalan: conill
    • → Sardinian: conígliu, coníliu, conillu, cunidhu, cunixu
  • Occitan: conilh
    • → Italo-Romance: (alternatively via French or Piedmontese)
      • Corsican: cunigliu, cunigliulu
      • Italian: coniglio
      • Sicilian: cunigghiu, cunigliu
• Ibero-Romance:
  • Aragonese: coniello
  • Old Leonese:
    • Asturian: coneyu
    • Leonese: cuneyu
    • Mirandese: coneilho
  • Old Portuguese: cõello
    • Galician: coello, coenllo
    • Portuguese: coelho (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Spanish: conejo
    • Ladino: konejo
    • Spanish: conejo
      • → Asturian: conexu
      • → Cebuano: koneho
      • → Galician: conexo
      • → Papiamentu: koneu
      • → Quechua: kunu
      • → Tagalog: kuneho

Borrowed

• → Middle High German: küniklīn, künglīn (partial calque)
  • Czech: králík
  • Lower Sorbian: kralik
  • Polish: królik
    • → Russian: кролик (krolik), кро́ликъ (królik)
      • → Bezhta: королик (korolik)
      • → Ingrian: kroolikka
    • → Yiddish: קראָליק‎ (krolik)
  • Slovak: králik
• → Arabic:
  • Moroccan Arabic: قنية‎ (qniyya)
• → Old Breton:
  • Middle Breton: conicl, conniffl
    • Breton: konikl, konifl

References

• “cunīculus” in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (TLL Open Access), Berlin (formerly Leipzig): De Gruyter (formerly Teubner), 1900–present