funambulus
See also: Funambulus
English
Noun
funambulus (plural funambuli)
- (obsolete) A funambulist; a tightrope walker.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “funambulus”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Latin
Alternative forms
Etymology
From fūnis (“rope”) + ambulō (“to walk”).
Noun
fūnambulus m (genitive fūnambulī); second declension
Declension
Second-declension noun.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| Nominative | fūnambulus | fūnambulī |
| Genitive | fūnambulī | fūnambulōrum |
| Dative | fūnambulō | fūnambulīs |
| Accusative | fūnambulum | fūnambulōs |
| Ablative | fūnambulō | fūnambulīs |
| Vocative | fūnambule | fūnambulī |
References
- “funambulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “funambulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- funambulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- “funambulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “funambulus”, in William Smith et al., editor (1890), A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin