curculio

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See also: Curculio

English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Latin curculiō (weevil).

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /kɜː(ɹ)ˈkjuːliəʊ/
    • (file)

Noun[edit]

curculio (plural curculios)

  1. Any of the genus Curculio of weevils.
    Synonyms: acorn weevil, nut weevil

Derived terms[edit]

References[edit]

Latin[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (to bend, curve, turn).[1] Cognate with English shrink, and Latin carcer, curvus and cancer.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

curculiō f (genitive curculiōnis); third declension

  1. weevil

Declension[edit]

Third-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative curculiō curculiōnēs
Genitive curculiōnis curculiōnum
Dative curculiōnī curculiōnibus
Accusative curculiōnem curculiōnēs
Ablative curculiōne curculiōnibus
Vocative curculiō curculiōnēs

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  • curculio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • curculio 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)
  • curculio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette
  • curculio”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
  1. ^ Walde, Alois; Hofmann, Johann Baptist (1938), “curculio”, in Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 1, 3rd edition, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, page 314
  2. ^ Rubattu, Antoninu (2006), “gorgoglione”, in Dizionario universale della lingua di Sardegna, 2nd edition, Sassari: Edes