graculus

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Latin[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From *grācō +‎ -ulus. Compare Proto-Slavic *grakati (to croak) and in the Germanic branch English croak and Old Norse krákr (crow), kráka (raven). All can be reconstructed to a root *grāk-, ultimately likely onomatopoeic.[1]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “how can be *greh₂-k- morphologically analyzed”)

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

grāculus m (genitive grāculī); second declension

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Declension[edit]

Second-declension noun.

Case Singular Plural
Nominative grāculus grāculī
Genitive grāculī grāculōrum
Dative grāculō grāculīs
Accusative grāculum grāculōs
Ablative grāculō grāculīs
Vocative grācule grāculī

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References[edit]

  1. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “grāculus”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 268
  • graculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • graculus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
  • graculus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.